Re: SBS2003, Terminal server and Mobile 6

If you publish it on a port other than 3389, then yes, you'll break RWW access to that machine. But that's not the end of the world, and may be a good solution.

Perhaps it's a matter of majority rules. If you have only a few WM clients that need access in this way, and far more that would like to use conventional RWW, do the VPN thing for the WM clients and leave RWW intact. If it's the other way around, then abandon RWW, publish the TS on 3389.

You should be able to get some help from the TS newsgroup on the performance questions, sorry I don't have much to offer you there as I don't have a site with over 10 or so TS users.

There is overhead with VPN, and I do understand your wanting to avoid it if possible. Regarding bandwidth and cost, it's a business decision that only you can make.

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Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Isaac de Abreu" <askisaac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23MSmPiJ4HHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Les

Thanks for that info. The purpose is not for administration but rather to run an application on the TS.

Pushing on from your suggestion, if I publish the TS on a non standard port will this render the TS server unavailable to those who currently use RWW for TS and if not, does this increase the probability of a more secure connection (Coming in on a non-standard port)

I have been told that if you need 40 users to connect to TS over VPN then your bandwidth and performance is going to suffer a lot more than if you don't use VPN. Please bear in mind that in South Africa bandwidth is very expensive and I will probably be trying to squeeze 40 users into a 384kb/s pipe!!

Thanks for your advice on this one.

Cheers
Isaac de Abreu

PS Does anyone know where you can get statistics concerning bandwidth utilisation in a TS environment?


"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:E85C8955-0E9F-4964-A6E8-ABB5E919DE69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Isaac,

If this is for administrative purposes, you could RDP to the SBS server, then RDP to the TS.

If it's not for that purpose, then I'm afraid you're going to have to bypass RWW completely for TS access, and publish it. If you elect to publish it on 3389, then you'll be without RDP access to the SBS (which is an inconvenience, but not the end of the world).

As you mention VPN, that is a valid option that would allow you to leave everything else as is.

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Les Connor [SBS MVP]


"Isaac de Abreu" <askisaac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%231t%23caB4HHA.1824@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all

I would like to connect to SBS2003 RWW and from there connect to Terminal Server. The challenge is that I want to connect to Termninal Server using a Mobile 6 device.

The obvious problem over here of course, is that you cannot install Active X controls onto a Mobile 6 device. So the question is - Does anyone have any smart ideas on how I can achieve this or is this even possible?

BTW the solution has to include SBS2003 and Terminal but not necessarily RWW and I would prefer not to go through VPN if possible.

Isaac
Johannesburg - South Africa





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