Robert We run probaly half a dozen Terminal Servers with remote connections wia Modem and ADSL Quickly the points I'd make follow
A 56K Modem is marginal at 800x600, JetStart 128K is OK, at 256K (Walker Wireless etc) I remotely design reports using Crystal To support adhoc connections we use a VPN server under Linux (cause the M$ VPN security is crap) and the Windows VPN Client, Though we have recently installed a snapgear router pair for a client The VPN has the advantage of printers being shared at a network level. the downside is you cant route it (so for a remote site with multiple clients its not really and option, though you can run one VPN Client on a win2K+ machine and route thru that), and it can be unreliable on connection. The main 'gotcha' with TS Client Printing is though a session will share your local printers the name is randomly generated each connection so it is impossible to persist printer configs. Hence a better solution is to use LPD printing with some form of client on the workstation (Moccha) or share at Windows Network level (ie you share the local printer on the client and configure a printer on the TS to print to it) 2 other options to consider for a rollout are the xtra ADSL based VPN Service or Static IP's for server and client site and packet filtering for security (for the TS client protocol and LPD) As for testing, if it works locally it will work remotely (I wouldn't recommend 56K modems, maybe citrix is called for, the ICA protocal being more efficient than RDP). And testing printing. you have to be careful of is the size of the print jobs, This can of course vary with 'soft' (non printer fonts) etc HTH Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: [DUG]: Terminal Services > Hi All > > Not really a Delphi question but I note that there are some people with TS > experience on the list so here goes. We are testing our application on TS > for a client, we have it all running on our network here and want to trail > it over jetstream and modem. Do we need a fixed IP address for the TS > machine? If so how do we set this up, what's the best way (remember this is > only a short term test). > > TIA > Rob > > Software engineer > Wild Software Ltd > Ph 03 338-1407 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
