Just some ramblings:
I think PC Anywhere nowadays has a decent dial back system. You leave the
PC logged on at night as a User with the network security defined for only
the directories you choose. The user dials in, provides a password and the
machine hangs up and dials back to a predefined phone number. This is
pretty much un-hackable. The connection made allows the remote computer to
operate the in-house computer as if they were at the keyboard. I had used
Close-up 6.0 with 4.5+ (I don't know if they are around anymore, but as I
said, I've read that PC Anywhere has dial back capabilities that are pretty
good now).
Pretty much only allow them to use one directory, the one you would have
them use to start a codelocked application as a user with the proper RBase
rights for the work you need done. Even more secure would be to run
Run-time RBase, so they could not drop out to the R> prompt.
You can also set up user profiles in WIN 95 that would restrict the user
from changing the available Windows interface to try to by-pass what you
want them to use. Install the Windows 95 Policy Editor off your Win 95 CD
to have pretty tight control of the desktop, the "run" command, changing
the desktop and getting into the DOS prompt. Delete the policy editor file
from your PC after it is set, and delete Regedit, if it is on that work
station.
Ike
At 11:49 AM 8/6/01 -0300, you wrote:
>Hello
>
>In my work have developed an administrative system using R: Base 5.5
>version DOS. The system is multiuser and is in a Compaq 486 server with
>Netware 3.12. This server has a hard disk and a tape backup unit. The
>system works really very well.
>
>My question is the following. How could I connect me of remote form to the
>system? Is there somebody that has experience in that topic? I has been
>experiencing with pcAnywhere 10.0 but I don't know how to restrict the
>access of the remote user so that he only have access to the
>administrative system. The machine with which I made the tests it is
>Windows 95 workstation.
>
>TIA
