Thanks all for your responses. I will be forwarding your comments to the IT guy and hope he is more experienced than I am. I have just used remote desktop and PC anywhere, and have been fine with the response of each so far, but that is only a one-to-one setup. I guess I am not sure why those programs can work at a usable speed and I don't see a lot of apps out there from any company that have their own set up like this. I know there is some sort of setup in Filmmaker and Alpha 5 or 6 that may do this, but I am a diehard R:Baser and would not want to go to another program - too comfortable with the RB stability and RAD. Thanks again for the ideas.... Bob C
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:39 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Web Access Question << VPN (Virtual Private Network) might be an option. >> but VPN, which essentially extends your office network across the internet to.anyone with the IP address and correct login credentials, has two problems. The first is that networked applications (like R:Base or any other file-server based database) will operate at WAN instead of LAN speeds. I'd be surprised if they were usable at that speed. The second is that you are essentially expanding your network to anyone's home PC who has the correct login credentials. If that PC is infected with malware you're opening other machines on your network to a possible source of infection. I know someone who uses VPN to attach to an office network, then remote desktops to his PC to use a file-server database. In this case the performance is fine (since he's using remote desktop, not running the database locally on his machine), the VPN is used only to secure the connection back to the office network. I've advised him to shut down the VPN and instead install a Terminal Server box (he'll actually install this on an existing underutilized server, avoiding the need for new hardware) backed by RSA token authentication for remote user logins. -- Larry
