Re: VPN General Question

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From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:39:07 -0500

Use Remote Access VPN (single user per connection). The Watchguard box can
do that just fine on its own,..we use one here. In the Watchguard "lingo"
it would be the "Remote VPN" as opposed to Watchguard's "Branch Office VPN"
that you do not want to use.

The "Branch Office VPN" is for connecting two or more entire LANs together
that is transparent to the users on each end. It is much more complex to set
up and I have never done it here.

Don't be afraid to get Watchguard to help,.. they know thier product and the
proprietary ways they so things better than anyone else would.

"James Kennedy" <jamesmkennedy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23sbOnWDOEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I'm new to this newsgroup and to Windows 2000 Server technology, but have
> worked several years in designing websites and some CGI programming, so am
> not a tech newbie. I work parttime for a small business and have been
asked
> to find a way to share program files over the internet (i.e., allow users
in
> another city to access shared data files on our server, instead of
emailing
> files back and forth). We use Windows 2000 server, but so far has only
been
> used for file-sharing. We have a firewall (Watchguard Firebox).
>
> My question is: what is the best way of doing this? I'm told using VPN
> technology would do this, but I'm just not sure where the best place to
> start is and what exact technology I should use. This will not be
> large-scale; only 2 or 3 people will need to access the program files
> remotely. What would be the simplest, but secure, way of doing this?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time,
>
> James Kennedy
>
>

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