Richard Forth wrote:
Unless I missed something in the middle there, your original request was for VPN Termination, You did not specify exactly what it was for, so the answer is NO you would not need VPN access (for use of a website), instead you'd presumably use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) which is a whole different thing.
it is for remote access to a single machine, as I learned on probing. It then struck me I didn't necessarily need VPN as it is only a single server and a single client - the secure web server is an analogy.
Mark is right, VPNs are used to connect two computers together in a secured private network. For example if my Home PC is on and I want to get something off a shared folder or Remote control it (from anywhere in the world), and I wanted to do so in a secure fashion, I'd need a VPN connection to that PC to be established first before I could access the share or set up the remote control connection.
is there not such a thing as secure remote access, rather than taking two bottles into the shower ? I think some forms of VNC have encrypted traffic and secure password access - for example http://www.realvnc.com/products/personal/index.html
would you need a VPN connection first or can you just use a secure service with an appropriate client ?
I guess the next question is "does a windows server have a secure remote access service" but that would be off-topic :-)
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