Re: VPN that passes firewall?
- From: "GTS" <x@xxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:11:41 -0400
Since you don't control the router, your best bet would be to use a product like GotoMyPC or Crossloop. These will work through firewalls and with dynamic addresses. (There is a free version of Crossloop, but it requires user action on each end to connect unlike the paid version.)
(PC Anywhere and similar products would require port forwarding to be configured in the building router and probably at the other end as well. A VPN end point router would not be suitable if you have to connect it to the landlords router which you can't control).
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"james" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:emUf4Q2$JHA.4892@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have several computers in a peer-to-peer LAN at one office. Several machines have shared folders. Now a new office is opened that I travel to a few times a month and I need to access the LAN from the new office. The total size of the files in the shared folders is a few megabytes (excel and word files).
I'm running windows XP and vista. There is no dedicated servers or domain controllers and I'd like to keep it that way because there is no one to maintain the server.
In both locations (a rented office in a building), there is internet access but I do not have direct control of the router/firewall. So I can't open or forward a port.
I briefly look at the VPN in XP pro. It looks like I need a fixed internet IP (which I'm not sure I would get; since the internet service is DSL, probably with DHCP). It also requires mod to firewall, which I have no control over.
Is there an alternate solution?
No need to walk me through a setup. Just point me to the right technology/software. It doesn't have to be VPN, that's just the first thing that comes into mind. The files are business-critical files, so hosting them on an outside server won't work because if the internet goes down, I still need to conduct my business at the main office.
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