Proper VPN steps

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I want to connect to my clients computer. I have a DSL
line. I have Windows XP professional. Do my clients need
a DSL/Cable line? I am about to get a wireless router
for my computer and I have Mcafee firewall and virus
protection running.
What do I need to do to the clients computers?
Then do I run the wizard on my computer for each of the
computers I want to connect to?
(For one client I currently connect using PC Anywhere,
but I need on their computer when they are using it.)

Thanks
 
Do my clients need a DSL/Cable line?
ANS: NO, Any connection to the ISP will do.

What do I need to do to the clients computers?
ANS: What is the aim? If you just want to connect to your VPN server then
get the internet connectivity from your ISP and use "New connection wizard"
to create connection to your server.
If you don't want to run wizard on each client computer then you can look
into CMAK (Connection Manager Administration kit, with Win2k3 or W2k). With
this you can create profiles which can be simply installed on the client
computer & they will be ready to go.

For more information look at
http://www.microsoft.com/vpn

CMAK information
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/sag_CMAKtopnode.htm?id=1634
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...er2003/proddocs/entserver/sag_CMAKtopnode.asp

-Pawan

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Sabrina said:
I want to connect to my clients computer. I have a DSL
line. I have Windows XP professional. Do my clients need
a DSL/Cable line?
Click to expand...
I am about to get a wireless router
 
You might want to say more about what kinds of things you need to do on the
remote machine while it is being used.

A VPN connection is like a network connection, but slower. It will be as
slow as the slowest link involved, and many DSL connections are
asymmetric--the uplink speed is much slower than the downlink side.

Any operations that you will be doing that will involve files that are in
use will need to be with software which manages that situation properly.

Operations on a database, unless it is a client/server database--SQL Server,
for example, will likely be very slow. You need to be very aware of the
amount of data involved, and where the processing happens.
 
I am a bookkeeper. What I am planning on doing is connecting to the clients computer so I can work in their quickbooks file.
I was about to buy a router today, but the salesman told me I need a router with VPN capabilities, is this true?
 
Windows XP will allow one incoming VPN connection... If you need more
connections, either a VPN router or a Win2K/2K3/etc. server would be
needed.

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You need to check with quickbooks about whether you and the client can work
at the same time. I once installed Quickbooks on a network of about 15
machines to be used to train a group of people, and recall that there was
some complication--check with the vendor.

I don't know how large quickbooks files typically are, but you might find it
much more productive to move the file to your system, work with it, then
move it back.

This'd probably be worth actually talking to a competent support person at
Quickbooks about on the phone--they can quickly tell you whether this is
likely to be workable, and whether the standard version can handle multiple
users on a network.

I suspect that you don't need a VPN capable router--i.e. one with the
capability of initiating and/or providing an end-point for a VPN tunnel
itself. What matters is how the router handles incoming and outbound VPN
connections. Routers that I have seen handle a single outbound PPTP VPN
connection just fine. IPSEC is a different matter, and I can't give you
clear advice about it. Simple routers that I've worked with also handle
inbound PPTP VPN connections reasonably well.

What will be most important is the equipment at the client site.

Remote Desktop is superior to PCAnywhere, but, as you say, you want to work
while they are also working.

I'd like to see you check this out with Quickbooks, or find another user
doing something similar--i.e. accessing quickbooks across a slow network
link. Then I'd like to see if you can arrange to test this out without
spending much money.

What's the client's present Internet connection?
 
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