Brian, It seems you have quite a good arrangement, and a great view from the office ;)
as for the printing and VPN issue, I am not sure what you do need is in fact a terminal session provided by VNC or RDP. Network access (including access to the printers) is not the solution for your needs? If you can access the importante files on the servers disks, print to the required printers, or even access the outlook personal folders from the boat, for an instance, would it let you do your work? VNC could be used just to systems administration and to access server´s programs not available on the network, like the pos software... A VPN bridge like the one you can have with OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.net) could give you the network printing and file access capabilities... -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian M. Godfrey" <br...@wildbirdshop.com> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 12:48 PM To: <vnc-list@realvnc.com> Subject: RE: Personal VNC question >> It's more common to want to print something locally from the server to >> which you're connected. > > This is actually very rare in our business. We frequently print from > our > client computers onto the server's printers, but rarely the reverse. I > can > also see how a salesperson or on-site technician might wish to print > orders, > reports, test results, etc., on the server's printers. > The world is an incredibly complex place and remote computing means > pretty much everything you can think of, someone is doing or trying to do. > We ran a Mom & Pop gift store on the north Oregon coast for 10 years, then > decided to start wintering in a sunnier climate. For the last six years > we > have run our business part time from southern CA and the rest of the time > from a houseboat on a river about a two hour drive from our store. Both > locations are connected to the store by VPNs. My wife has a computer in > the > store that is "hers". She logs into it in the morning and manages the > employees as if she were in the store because she can see every sale that > occurs as it occurs. She can then suggest ways to re-arrange the > merchandise to fill in the "hole" left by a tapestry or painting that is > sold. She can keep tabs on inventory and watch the sales, looking for a > lull when she can ask for physical counts. She can re-order important > merchandise as soon as it sells. Etc. When she is in the store she gets > too caught up in the fray to do this kind of oversight. This is why we've > done fine during the recession while other stores in our area are dying > off > right and left. And I can look out the window to my left and see the > river, > the herons, the boats and so on. > > --Brian M. Godfrey > br...@wildbirdshop.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
