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by daniel.quick

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I have successfuly setup and am currently utalizing a VPN I have setup for my school. We use an electronic gradebook program and I have found a way of installing it locally at the users home and having it only do database additions and subtractionsover the VPN connection w/ little traffic.

In order for our teachers to utalize this connection from their houses, they have to install the VPN adapter at the homes, most running Windows 95 and 98. How do I install it at their homes? Or do I ask them to bring their computer in for configuration?

Please help! Thanks,

Daniel

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by parier

I work at a local college and are in the same exact situation, I have found that it is easier to install on their laptops and configure it manually. If there are over 20 laptops, I would recommend Norton Ghost and create an image with the configurations, then install to all laptops. Not only will this same enormous amounts of time, but you will have a backup up via Ghost!

Hope this helps!

by spownall

We have VPN also for telecommuting purposes. We have had the user's bring in their machines so that we can control the install and setup. We us Citrix and user's can also go to the Citrix web site to download the version needed, then its just a matter of them dialing in and logging on.

by uru_98

The image Idea is good but these are the setbacks;
1- The users probably have different types of computers so there would be a lot of HD conflicts if an image for computer type a was put on computer type b.
2- Users usually have all different kinds of software and files stored on their hard drive so imaging the computers would mean a lot of reinstalling and restoring.

I think your best bet would be to ask the teachers to bring in their computers (3 at a time). Going to different houses is time consuming and you never know what you might need. Plus if you need to get to the internet, check the users VPN setting or do something on another computer, you won't be able to do it at their house. This way you can also work on three computers at a time.

If some of the users are gittery about disconnecting the computers themselves, you can make a seperate list and pick up five computers at a time. Then go back with the five computers and put them back.

Just make sure each computer is tagged with name, tel#, address etc..(CYA stuff) hehe

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