Re: Home Office wants a Remote Workstation to access resources
- From: "Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:34:24 -0400
Thanks for the reply. That's a good idea, Option one. We've got a laptop.
So the PC we bought that's in the garage, we'll move over to the main office
and allow users to access it remotely or take remote control of it. And the
new office administrator assistant can use the laptop to access that PC.
Shouldn't have to purchase another PC. One location has Verizon broadband
and another has Cox high speed cable. Not quite sure of the speeds though.
Thanks again, have a blessed day!
Anthony....
"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e80k4pc1FHA.3188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Keeping your current SBS 2000 LAN, you seem to have two choices:
>
> 1. Install a dedicated WinXP Pro workstation on the SBS 2000 LAN that can
> be remote controlled by the Location A workstation (via VPN/Remote Desktop
> Connection (RDC) or maybe just an RDC session without the VPN). The
> workstation at Location A could then be a lesser model running Windows XP
> Pro or even (shudder) Windows XP Home Edition. All work would then be
> processed on the dedicated Win XP Pro machine and no data would be
> transferred to the remote PC at Location A.
>
> 2) Install a Terminal Server in your SBS 2000 LAN and access it from
> Location A. This is the more expensive approach if you don't plan on
> adding more remote PCs in the near future.
>
> --
> Merv Porter [SBS MVP]
> ===================================
>
> "Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23Kv7DVb1FHA.3856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Good Afternoon Everyone,
>>
>> I hope everyone is doing fine. Our family has a small home office
>> network of about 3 PCs.
>> We recently hired an administrator and set up a PC in a garage down the
>> street from the home office. The garage is probably about 1/4 to 1/2
>> mile away. This remote computer has access to a high speed internet
>> connection and we have been trying out the remote desktop feature from XP
>> to the Win2000 SBS server but it's not working out for us. We really
>> want the remote desktop to act like it's a local desktop within the small
>> office. Terminal Svc isn't working. Here are details below:
>>
>> Okay, here is what we're trying to do. We are trying to allow a
>> computer/workstation, with Windows XP (SP2) Professional, located at one
>> location (home/residence or Location A) to connect to a Windows network
>> domain (OLETANET) that is located at another home/residence (Location B).
>>
>> The workstation must be able to connect to OLETANET via a high-speed
>> internet connection. The workstation is currently on a secured wireless
>> network, and OLETANET is behind a hardware firewall, Netgear FR318. The
>> primary domain server of OLETANET is the Windows 2000 server. The server
>> is primarily used as a file server; data files exist on the server that
>> are accessed by software running on the workstations that are connected
>> to OLETANET.
>>
>> We have been successful in establishing a remote connection from one
>> residence (Location A) to another residence (Location B), and the
>> workstation at Location A is able to use the Windows XP Remote Desktop to
>> connect to the file server on OLETANET at Location B. Permissions have
>> been set on the server at Location B for one user, limiting access for
>> this user that sits at the workstation at Location A.
>>
>> It would be nice to have the Windows XP workstation at Location A to be
>> able to connect to OLETANET at Location B and operate just like the rest
>> of the workstations at Location B. The workstations at Location B are
>> able to login to the domain (OLETANET) at startup of their machines, map
>> a network drive to the file server on OLETANET, run client software (on
>> the C drive of the workstations) that connect to the mapped network drive
>> on the file server, and print to the network printer that is also
>> connected to OLETANET.
>>
>> The workstations need to run client software (Windows and DOS
>> applications) from the C drive and connect to the G drive (mapped network
>> drive), because the data for the software resides on the G drive (mapped
>> network drive to file server).
>>
>> We have tried VPN, and the connection was very slow, and the Remote
>> Desktop is just not going to meet our requirements. We are trying to
>> avoid the situation of paying for a T1 line (or high-speed
>> broadband/internet
>>
>> connection) between Location A and B.
>>
>> Someone, please let us know what we can do to make the workstation at
>> Location A operate just like the workstations at Location B can operate,
>> being connected to OLETANET.
>>
>> Anthony....
>>
>> In God We Trust!
>>
>>
>
>
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