Is it possible to connect to Access Database using VPN?

.... and that should have been "advice" ... (clearly insufficient caffeine
g)

Jeff Boyce

"Jeff Boyce" -DISCARD_HYPHEN_TO_END wrote in message
...
Paul

A minor technicality, aside from the excellent advise you've already
received...

An Access front-end/back-end combination is not a client/server
application,
it is a file/server application.

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Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
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"Paul" wrote in message
...
An Access application is splitted into front-end and back-end and it was
set
up to work as a client/server application for three users within the
office
LAN. However a user need to access it from a remote location and he
suggested that I should set up the VPN and it will work from a remote
location. Is it possible to connect it to an Access DB using VPN
connection?
Thanks.

Albert D. Kallal wrote:
So, terminal services is really what you use if you need more then two
remote users at the same time.

I am having good success with WinConnect Server
http://www.thinsoftinc.com/product_t...server_xp.aspx
Allows up to 21 simultaneous remote connections to Small Business Server
or Windows XP machines, at a considerable cost advantage compared with TS.

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Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP

Steve Schapel wrote in
:

Albert D. Kallal wrote:
So, terminal services is really what you use if you need more
then two remote users at the same time.

I am having good success with WinConnect Server
http://www.thinsoftinc.com/product_t...nect_server_xp
.aspx Allows up to 21 simultaneous remote connections to Small
Business Server or Windows XP machines, at a considerable cost
advantage compared with TS.

How do you figure? You have to pay for both the clients and the
server, whereas WTS comes on all servers and RDP comes on all
workstations. It's only about $40/seat to add the CALs. I looked at
Winconnect and it seemed to me to cost more than that, and then has
to be installed, which vastly increases the administrative costs.

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

Can you install TS on a Windows XP Professional edition? I checked the
Microsoft Web site for the pricing of the Windows 2003 Server R2 and the 5
Cals License for the Terminal Services, as follows:

Product Offering U.S. Price* Description

Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition


$999


Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.



Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition


$1,199


Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Includes 10 CALs (User or
Device, chosen after purchase)



Windows Server 2003, TS Client Access License 5-pack


$749

5 additional Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server (TS) CALs (User or
Device, chosen at time of purchase)


If I can get away with just the cost of the additional TS Client Access
License for a Windows XP Pro machine would be wonderful. I guess not....

"David W. Fenton" wrote in message
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Steve Schapel wrote in
:

Albert D. Kallal wrote:
So, terminal services is really what you use if you need more
then two remote users at the same time.

I am having good success with WinConnect Server
http://www.thinsoftinc.com/product_t...nect_server_xp
.aspx Allows up to 21 simultaneous remote connections to Small
Business Server or Windows XP machines, at a considerable cost
advantage compared with TS.

How do you figure? You have to pay for both the clients and the
server, whereas WTS comes on all servers and RDP comes on all
workstations. It's only about $40/seat to add the CALs. I looked at
Winconnect and it seemed to me to cost more than that, and then has
to be installed, which vastly increases the administrative costs.

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/