Phil Thompson wrote:
Mark Rogers wrote:
For remote access you're talking about two computers, connected by a
[N]etwork. If you're sat at the server's keyboard and monitor, then
yes: a VPN would be overkill (and pretty difficult to do!).
I'm connected over the internet, secure client access is all that's
really needed it doesn't need to pretend to be a LAN.
I can see where you're coming from, but I still say that 2 PCs (one
client, 1 server) is a network, so a VPN is a useful option. Your
"secure client access" means a network connection from client to server
which is encrypted, which is basically what a VPN is.
It may be that the complex configuration of typical VPN offerings means
that it's overkill, but that's a different point!
For simple VPN look at Hamachi (www.hamachi.cc). It is trivial under
Windows, and not particularly hard under Linux either.
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