Re: Set up Remote Connection

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A couple of ideas on this, presented inline.

On 2006-03-09 14:30:47 -0600, Randy Bennett <randyNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

I have a client that would like to be able to access programs on the
server from home. In particular, the client wants to have access to
Quickbooks.

Can this be done via the Remote Web Workspace or would a VPN be
necessary?

RWW is the best option for this, IMO. With RWW, you are remotely controlling a workstation on the internal network without having the remote workstation touch your internal network. With VPN, if there's any sort of malware on the workstation that's connecting in, you open your internal network to that threat.

Next question is how to set it up. I am new to SBS and have set up my
own SBS remote connection successfully, but my setup is a bit
different.
The client's setup has a cable internet connection coming in to a
router. The server and the client computers are also connected to that
router. The server is acting as the DHCP server. The cable connection
has a dynamic IP address and I've set up an account with
www.dyndns.org to connect to the router via the internet. This is
where I get lost.
How do I get the connection from the router to the server?

You'll have to do a port forward from the router to the SBS server. Depending on which router you have, that process will be different. But so long as your SBS box has a fixed IP address (which it should if i only has one NIC) you can forward specific service ports from the router to the SBS server (port 25 for incoming SMTP e-mail, port 443 fo incoming HTTPS traffic, etc) and so on.

HTH...

-Eriq

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