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by ohm.paul

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I am looking for a way to provide remote access to our internal sharepoint site from the outside. I have looked at a couple of ways, including setting up a VPN, remote desktop, or MS IAG. What would be the best (both in cost and security) solution for this task? All the user needs to be able to do is access the sharepoint site (including read and write). The outside user does not require access to any other company resources.

Also, would the home user require a CAL in order to access the sharepoint site? Obviously, if the user were using remote desktop, it wouldn't need a CAL since the desktop in the company LAN would have one already.

Would OpenVPN be a good way to set up such a session or is there a better way to accomplish this?

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by ohm.paul

The only problem I see with setting up Remote Web Workplace on the SBS file server that has sharepoint, is that it would be allowing traffic (albeit authenticated traffic) to the internal network. Also, it would require forwarding of port 80, 443, 3389, etc to the address of the file server. We also have a web server on a dmz that we want http traffic to be forwarded to...which presents a problem since we can't forward traffic to both places...

Another problem is that the fileserver (and entire internal network) is set up using a workgroup NOT a domain and I have seen a lot saying that RWW involves accessing through the domain. Does RWW still work if the network is configured on a workgroup rather than domain?

Is there a solution for these dilemmas or should I just go a different route?

by ohm.paul

I am looking to enable RWW, and I know I am supposed to go to Start -> Server Management, but this option is not available. I know this sounds odd, but it is just not there, neither is CEICW (Configure Email and Internet Connection Wizard) and they are both needed to set up and configure RWW...does anyone have an idea why these options would just not be there?

Typing anything about these in "Help and Support" seems to result in very little info about them, so it seems like these features were just not installed, if that's possible. I have checked under Windows Components in "Add/Remove Programs" but I cant find anything there that seems correct.

Any ideas?

by ohm.paul

Turns out, the file server is running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard yet it has Sharepoint Services 2.0 on it...which I did not realize was possible. The people who set up this server put Server 2003 instead of SBS for some (silly) reason. So, now my question is, is there any way to configure Sharepoint services 2.0 (running on Server 2003) for remote access...it seems as though there is no way of getting RWW on it, so maybe a VPN is my only option now. Agree? disagree?

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