Re: Port 1433 access

Buddy gave you an excellent set of explanations and advice.

The bottom line is, anything will be substantially slower than RWW. Also,
1433 is the most often attacker port after 80. Do not open it unless you can
restrict it to a certain IP. But even then you will have to deal with IP
spoofing - although the attacker would first have to find out which IP is
allowed.

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Claus
"CherylDetrick" <CherylDetrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know leaving ports open is dangerous. However, I need access to a
database
that when I use RWW is just TOOO slow and I have too many issues with it.
Also, I need to be able to print reports and access the files for
emailing.
Again.. I know it is dangerous, I'm looking for a way to minimize that
danger
as much as possible.

Using SBS 2003 r2 and SQL server 2005, can someone give me a procedure to:

1) Open port 1433 for access to my DB remotely
2) How to create a secure logon and password protected entry for that
A number of our users login to Outlook 2003 using RPC over HTTP and
those connections are login and password protected --- I"m looking for
something similar.

Thanks,

Cheryl


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