I have users working in country A and sometimes they will be travelling to country B. As country B I do not have access to the firewall and network configuration, country A and country B are having separated network. Users need to be able to connect to Country A file server to open files.
The server in country A is Compaq Proliant 1600, NT server 4.0 SP6, PIII – 550Mhz, 512MB Ram. Router is Cisco router 2610. An ISDN dial up 256KB modem. SCSI Raid 1. All shared files are stored on IDE hard disk on this server.
Plan: Upgrade internet line to leased lines – 512kbps. If I’m getting SDSL broadband- 1.5Mbps, what are the disadvantages?
Questions:
1. Currently there’s no firewall or vpn server on country A, how do I setup the network in order for the users to connect to file server remotely using some kind of vpn client to retrieve their files, for eg. excel, word files when they are connecting using country B Lan connection. My concern is if these 4 users were to come to country B to connect to country A server remotely to open up those files, will the connection be very slow?
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2. Terminal Server to be install on country A server, based on the hardware of the NT server – do you think it is able to support? Users to connect using vpn client and using Terminal services client to connect to the NT server but the fall back is they can’t save the files to the local disk.
Appreciate all help.
