When most users think about remote access, what they ask for is VPN. For travel, telecommuting, and satellite offices, virtual private networks have been the defacto method of remote access for the better part of this decade. Though an assortment of VPN solutions are available for the Macintosh platform, many require third-party clients that may not keep pace with operating system changes, and while VPN is a complex system requiring a well-provisioned network, none is more easily configured the VPN service built in to Mac OS X Server.