Stephen
Your welcome to use our TS for testing
"I set up a TS server" Setting up a Terminal Server with secure VPN access
over the internet is not a 5 minute job. Email Me if you want off-list
Neven ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Neven,
They do have an app, but It's not going to grow with them I feel, so we are
looking at alternatives, and the technology goes hand in hand as they would
ideally be using pda's in the field.
If we go TS, then it widens the field of apps to consider and probably means
little development effort needed. I'm going to test the performance of this
as soon as I set up a TS server and connect from my pda.
Thanks for the info,
regards,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 5:14 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] remote access options
Steve
The driver for this (pun intended) is the application not the
technology. So the
first question is "do they have an existing app", If the
answer is yes
then the solution is
TS, RDP works on dialup and gprs. The main problem is
printing because
TS client
printing will not 'work' at 56K, (unless you consider 5+ minutes per
page working)
The answer is to use a VPN Server which allocates a static IP
and an LPD
client on the
remote PC. you then config an LPD printer on the TS. Windows
it seems
attempts to
send out a print meta file which blows out (Windows Test
page, which is
about 25-75K of
HPPCL becomes 500K of network traffic), also avoid client USB printers
If they don't have an app then I'd seroiusly consider a Web
App based on
PHP components
You email could use Squirrel Mail, Project Management
PHProjekt and the
rest you could
either roll you own or modify PHProjekt, For Drawings I'd use
PDF Files
HTH
Neven
Stephen Barker wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a request at present from a customer who has
rapidly grown from a
one-man tradesman company to employing a dozen or more
staff, some in the
office, some working from another office and some on site
(construction).
They need hardware and software to enable easy access to
quotes, jobs,
drawings, email etc from remote sites. Some of these sites
will not have
broadband, and they will need laptop/gprs or pda/gprs type solutions.
Before I get started researching, does anyone have any ideas
or opinions or
know of any existing solutions on:
1. remote access using pcAnywhere, VNC etc
(too slow to be feasible over dialup?)
2. Terminal Services - is it practical to use over dial-up or gprs?
3. Remote printing - they may need to print quotes/Invoices
from the truck.
4. Redevelop a web interface to their software (or parts of
it) so direct
data entry can be done with a browser, and therefore a pda.
5. Laptop users with full software/data and a
synchronisation method back to
the office DB - preferably over dial-up. (Briefcase)
6. Develop PDA cut down version of their software with similar
synchronisation.
What does everyone else do for remote users of their software?
thanks,
Steve
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