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Re: remote desktop question
From: jordanpw <jordanpw () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:11:44 -0600
Thanks. Thinking more in terms of allowing users from multiple locations - home / home office etc ...
Brian Loe wrote:
If connecting two sites then you would use the router/firewall at each site to create the tunnel. Your performance hit will vary depending on your connection speed and what you're doing via terminal services - but for the most part my experience has been very good. SSL VPN is a very easy way to go but I've recently began question it's security. If someone can perform a MITM attack on an SSL session, why not an SSL VPN session? I don't know...just wondering.I see this advice often on this list. I work with very small businesses (200 users and below) where number of servers / firewalls / routers, and budgets for same, are very small. So I have some (very basic I'm afraid) questions on this subject: -- Is there not a slowness / performance hit when forcing users to access a Terminal Server via a VPN connection? -- This will require VPN client software on all client machines right? Or is the in-built MS VPN connection stuff considered acceptably secure in this scenario? -- Or should we look at SSL VPN for this? Thanks in advance for any feedback ...
Current thread:
- Re: remote desktop question jordanpw (Nov 02)
- Re: remote desktop question Scott C. Best (Nov 03)
- Re: remote desktop question Brian Loe (Nov 03)
- Re: remote desktop question jordanpw (Nov 03)
- Re: remote desktop question Brian Loe (Nov 03)
- Re: remote desktop question jordanpw (Nov 03)
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- RE: remote desktop question Kirk Brady (Nov 03)