On 2012-10-29 15:54:45 +0100, Santiago A. wrote: > El 29/10/12 14:38, Reinier Olislagers escribió: > > On 29-10-2012 13:57, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > >> Hi Santiago, did you try to run the application from a remote location?, > >> by just publishing the database (assuming you are using a TCP database, > >> such as Firebird, Postgresql, SQL Server, ....) port on your router, you > >> could connect > >> the client to the server remotely. > > Could definitely work, but: > > > > Having some kind of VPN or TLS encapsulation (e.g. zebedee) may be a > > good idea. > > Firebird e.g. has effective 8 character max passwords. Not too hard to > > try to brute force... > > > > -- > No matter which protocol I'll use, I will do through a SSH tunnel or > VPN. Now, even remote desktop connections are done by an SSH tunnel with > client private keys. The problem is not security, but performance. > > I don't know why, but standard dataware controls generate a lot of > traffic. Perhaps it is a problem of bad application design, but things > that work properly in a LAN are almost unusable in a WAN. > > -- > Santiago A. > s...@ciberpiula.net
Santiago, I don't know which database server you use, but in the case of firebird, I recommend this article: http://asfernandes.blogspot.com.ar/2009/07/network-latency-influence-on-firebird.html Regards, -- Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus