How to connection thru WAN ?

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I have about 3 companies located in 3 different cities.
They all have static ip address.

I want to have some kind of connection, probably WAN, so all the servers are
available to users and user can map the each server as a drive.

Can someone please how me how to link these servers thru WAN ?

I can connect to these server by terminal server but all servers are not
available to my computer at the same time.

I would appreciate if someone please help.

Thanks.

 

[Steve Duff [MVP]]

You would do this either with a private-wire network
(frame-relay, Tx, etc.), or over the public Internet using
a VPN tunnelling technology to keep the data secure.
The latter is less costly of course, but not as reliable.

If you decide you want to use a VPN Internet link, then you should strongly
consider investing in some hardware to do this -- it need not be
expensive. Netgear and Sonicwall for example make inexpensive
hardware VPN router boxes, and there are several others.

Software VPNs can be set up using Windows2000 Server, but
they are not really robust or efficient enough to support
high-duty LAN-to-LAN linkage (nor is a software RAS VPN
intended to host that kind of use.)

Once you have the VPN in place to run your
internetwork on, you just use normal networking services
to connect to shared resources available. This really
depends on what IT resources you already have and
how they are deployed and configured.

You might want to get a book on VPN technologies
that will give you more insight in how these work
and what is involved.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

 

[sqr]

If all of the machines are XP boxes you can use the built in Remote Desktop
if not you have two more options one free and the other costs you money. For
the free one use the browser run remote from "vnc-3.3.7-x86_win32.zip" which
you can get from my site and the other is Symantec's PC-Anywhere which is
very good.

 

[Kurt L]

If you just want terminal services type connections, you can have multiple
terminal services logons. Of course this requires licenses for each
connection. If you want all users at all locations to have full-time
connections to all of the networks, you can have direct connections via
telecom (T1, T3, etc). Of course if you are talking inter-state, this will
be pricey. The third option is VPN. For full time access, this will require
a decently fast internet connection at each location, and some VPN hardware
capable of delivering the connection speed you need at the encryption level
you require.

 

[Al Dykes]

I have about 3 companies located in 3 different cities.
They all have static ip address.

I want to have some kind of connection, probably WAN, so all the servers are
available to users and user can map the each server as a drive.

Can someone please how me how to link these servers thru WAN ?

I can connect to these server by terminal server but all servers are not
available to my computer at the same time.

I would appreciate if someone please help.

Thanks.

Depending on exactly what you want to do GoToMyPC (www.gotomypc.com)
is great for remote access into you office network. It's a $20/month
service but for that you get what is probably the slickest easiest
way to get remote access to your network equiplemt and all applications.

You can work on more sophisticated/cheaper solutions while you
are using gotomypc.

I have no relation other than being a satisfied customer.

 

[Guest]

Yep, you can spend $240 a year on GoToMyPC for what you can get for free, but
there's little reason to do so.