Re: [nlug] calling database admins - (WAN / VPN) Replacement for old database app? (LAMP stack?)

2015-09-15 Thread Michael L
What app would allow us to design an arbitrary interface to look like what we have on approach? I understand PHP to be a front end for mySQL. "Maybe" our user would work with something more modern if we can make it look like the old. I appreciate getting to ask these questions. Michael On

Re: [nlug] calling database admins - (WAN / VPN) Replacement for old database app? (LAMP stack?)

2015-09-15 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Michael, A VPN, or virtual private network, is a network that is constructed by using public wires — usually the Internet — to connect to a private network, such as a company's internal network. So for example, you can have your laptop with you at a starbucks (or even at home) and start a VPN

Re: [nlug] calling database admins - (WAN / VPN) Replacement for old database app? (LAMP stack?)

2015-09-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
How about you put the Windows XP machine on an Internet-connected LAN with a static IP address and gateway and NO DNS servers. With that configuration, you can configure a remote RDP connection, but that computer can't effectively get onto anything external (other than by IP address), and nothing

Re: [nlug] calling database admins - (WAN / VPN) Replacement for old database app? (LAMP stack?)

2015-09-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Michael, It sounds like the database itself doesn't have to be synced anywhere, there is just a need for remote client access. That's going to be tough to do with the policy of keeping the DB physically isolated :) So yes, that security policy will probably have to go if the database user has