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We have a remote location which is currently accessing GP through terminal services. We would like to have a more secure connection using a VPN connection. Our partner has indicated that there may be issues with a VPN connection. Has anyone tried it? Is it working? Is it supported?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Gail,
It simply does not work! We do, however, use a VPN connection for all of our remote offices to get them into the terminal server at the main head quarters. I tried using a local client over VPN to the GP server, to test it out, and it just will not work. Your best bet is to secure the terminal server traffice over VPN.
Ron
I agree with William. We have a VPN connection and once and a great while we use GP over it without terminal server. Its very very slow and will not provide a good end user experience.
Hi, Gail,
You may use VPN as add-on for security, but do not use it to replace the existing terminal services for access GP. In other other word, as for remote users to access GP, they use VPN to establish secure tunnel across the internet, and then they logon GP via terminal service (eg. remote desktop).
In other words, the remote user computer should not installed with GP and ODBC to the remote SQL database. They just need to have VPN and Terminal client software only.
Run, don't walk, away from that idea. Lots of folks have tried it and the answer is always the same. It is not supported because it doen't work. You will have pain and frustration. If you want a more secure connection you are better off applying better security to the Terminal Server session
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