Re: VPN home worker implementation

lanwanhr_at_yahoo.com
Date: 07/27/05 

Date: 27 Jul 2005 10:56:31 -0700

Thanks for the feedback. Different ideas as well as improvements to my
solution is exactly what I want.

I can see that for a lot of Companies that would be ideal (and is
probably what they use).

For me though this I don't think this would work:

- All the staff that would home (or indeed mobile) work have Company
laptops so there wouldn't be anything to remote desktop to - unless we
went with Terminal Services. Corporate policy is not to use MS Windows
Servers unless there is no choice :) Is there an alternative?

- The network file access benefit of RD isn't so much of an issue as a)
they have laptops and carry data with them, and b) our WAN is too slow
for mapped drives so this would only benefit staff (20%?) whose local
file server was on the same LAN as the Terminal Services server.

Also, with a remote desktop connection am I right in thinking that it
usually isn't as responsive as a local session?

I can certainly see there are advantages if you want to allow any PC to
RD, or mapped drives are a viable consideration. It would
significantly reduce upstream bandwidth issues of big emails (though
presumably staff would want to integrate with Outlook on their laptop)
and Internet - also easier to plan how big a link for how many people
and stop one from hogging all the bandwidth.

Thanks again for the ideas - with a different infrastructure that would
be the way to go :)

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