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From: Leythos on 30 Apr 2010 19:27 In article <66c8e047ec2e7715f166d8c24c44000d(a)nntp-gateway.com>, guest(a)unknown-email.com says... > > My problem is tho the director does not have a desktop PC in the office > to RDP to. He only has a laptop In the long run the cost of a PC for him to connect to will be cheaper than dealing with all of the issues the VPN's for ignorant users connecting via it. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: Bill Grant on 30 Apr 2010 20:48 "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message news:MPG.2645317e490ab3b598a323(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > In article <66c8e047ec2e7715f166d8c24c44000d(a)nntp-gateway.com>, > guest(a)unknown-email.com says... >> >> My problem is tho the director does not have a desktop PC in the office >> to RDP to. He only has a laptop > > In the long run the cost of a PC for him to connect to will be cheaper > than dealing with all of the issues the VPN's for ignorant users > connecting via it. > > -- > You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little > voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. > Trust yourself. > spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address) And I would certainly not make a DC a VPN server!
From: Leythos on 30 Apr 2010 21:16 In article <uXqFdgM6KHA.1424(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, not.available(a)online says... > > "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.2645317e490ab3b598a323(a)us.news.astraweb.com... > > In article <66c8e047ec2e7715f166d8c24c44000d(a)nntp-gateway.com>, > > guest(a)unknown-email.com says... > >> > >> My problem is tho the director does not have a desktop PC in the office > >> to RDP to. He only has a laptop > > > > In the long run the cost of a PC for him to connect to will be cheaper > > than dealing with all of the issues the VPN's for ignorant users > > connecting via it. > > > > And I would certainly not make a DC a VPN server! Never, that's why we have real firewall appliances for businesses - they offer different forms of VPN connections that are terminated at the FireWall Appliance and allow you to control the scope of the connection. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
From: David Kerber on 3 May 2010 13:28
In article <MPG.2645317e490ab3b598a323(a)us.news.astraweb.com>, spam999free(a)rrohio.com says... > > In article <66c8e047ec2e7715f166d8c24c44000d(a)nntp-gateway.com>, > guest(a)unknown-email.com says... > > > > My problem is tho the director does not have a desktop PC in the office > > to RDP to. He only has a laptop > > In the long run the cost of a PC for him to connect to will be cheaper > than dealing with all of the issues the VPN's for ignorant users > connecting via it. Yep. As somebody said in the first response, file sharing over a VPN is slooooooooow. Remote Desktop over a vpn works well, though; you could get a $500 desktop that would work fine for this. |