Off Site Connection

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Peter

Hello all hope you can give me some help in this area.

I have a small peer to peer network running between computers at work with
one computer designated as the data server. Get data from that computer to
run Access on other computers in office and works fine. What I want to be
able to do is access that data from outside the office. Have installed a
linksys VPN router with a highspeed connection and static IP address. Can
connect to the VPN router and computers on the network with a little hassle,
but seems to work fine for working on word docs but will not open Access
files even though the server is a mapped drive through the VPN connection.
After looking on the site here I see that using the VPN is not the way to go
for Access, so what I'm looking for is the best way to do what I want, work
on access files from outside the office. I can always use a computer on the
office network as a host so if PC anywhere or something like it is the way to
go I can make that change. Just not all that sure about PC Anywher although
its been a few years since I used it and that was an old dial up connection.

Appreciate any ideas and suggestions you can give me. My over all goal is
to be able to work on all my software from outside the office just like I was
in the office.
 
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Tony Toews

Peter said:
I can always use a computer on the
office network as a host so if PC anywhere or something like it is the way to
go I can make that change. Just not all that sure about PC Anywher although
its been a few years since I used it and that was an old dial up connection.
Click to expand...

If the host PC is Windows XP you can use the built in Remote Desktop function. On
the host PC Control Panel >> System >> Remote tab >> Remote Desktop section. Note
that you will have to open the corp firewall to allow incoming traffic to that PCs
TCP/IP port. Or get some other method of getting to that PC.

Note that for multiple PCs accessing the network you'd want to use Terminal Server.

Tony
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