Configuring user acess to network via TS

Banzai_Joe · 24 May 2007 at 10:42

All our users connect to the servers/network via TS on an internal IP.

Now some users want to work from home and asked for the external public IP so they can log in from home using RDC.
The boss has now decided he only wants certain users to be able to do that.

So, is it possible to configure which users can access our network via TS using the public IP?

Thanks for any advice.

Biffa · 24 May 2007 at 11:02

Suggest that you setup VPN access between the external users and your internal network, you don't want to open up RDP to the world.

Banzai_Joe · 24 May 2007 at 12:16

Biffa said:
Suggest that you setup VPN access between the external users and your internal network, you don't want to open up RDP to the world.

So there's not a quick and easy solution then?

As admin i log remotely from home to perform maintenance via RDP.
We only have a 512KB connection to our work premises. We are at the very end of BT's crappy exchange and that's all anyone in the 'business park' can get without going to leased line :rolleyes:

Will VPN be ok over this kind of bandwidth?

NiCkNaMe · 24 May 2007 at 18:45

Nothing's ideal over that amount of bandwidth

However depending upon the level of encryption used VPN's add very little overhead so it shouldn't be a problem

DarkHorizon472 · 24 May 2007 at 21:38

For what you want you don't have much choice but to use a VPN. The issue you may get is too many people connecting from Home and maxing out your link. The only real solutions to this are increase your bandwidth, use some form of quality of service (Only allow the VPN traffic to use a maximum of X Kb, etc) or limit the number of people who can connect via the VPN.

It's one of those users want it all for free type situations

Banzai_Joe · 25 May 2007 at 08:38

DarkHorizon472 said:
For what you want you don't have much choice but to use a VPN. The issue you may get is too many people connecting from Home and maxing out your link. The only real solutions to this are increase your bandwidth, use some form of quality of service (Only allow the VPN traffic to use a maximum of X Kb, etc) or limit the number of people who can connect via the VPN.

It's one of those users want it all for free type situations

That's exactly what we want to do, only allow certain users to connect into the work network from outside.

I cannot configure RDP for this, VPN seems the way to go then.