Juniper networks and Vista x64...

Munky1080 · 30 May 2008 at 18:13

Good Afternoon;

I'm not sure this is the correct place to put it, but my work uses Juniper for remote desktop terminal sessions. This is bad because I use Vista x64 and Juniper doesn't support it at all, and the IT guys at my work aren't much help either.

Someone mentioned to me that I might be able to use VMWare to emulate an x86 machine so that I can connect remotely. Is this the right way to go do you think, and if so, does anyone know of any decent places on the web to see how I would set this up properly?

I'm not asking for a step-by-step guide from you guys (although if someone wanted to post one I'd be grateful!) as I can do the dirty work myself. A little nudge in the right direction would help though.

Cheers;

bigredshark · 2 Jun 2008 at 10:56

This will change, juniper rebrand the safenet client and thats coming out as an x64 version. Shouldn't be too long.

That said, it's a rubbish bit of software!

Munky1080 · 2 Jun 2008 at 13:29

Yeah - the IT department at work aren't too bright...It's good to know though that it'll support x64 soon - as I would like to work ( *cough*game*cough*) from home every now and again.

bigredshark · 2 Jun 2008 at 16:35

Munky1080 said:
Yeah - the IT department at work aren't too bright...It's good to know though that it'll support x64 soon - as I would like to work ( *cough*game*cough*) from home every now and again.

Just be thankful, it took them about a year to come up with a version which support vista in any form. Juniper seriously need to do something about the software...

BoomAM · 12 Jun 2008 at 23:49

Suggest to them one of the many VNC clients +server softwares available.
Ive just started playing with LanView3. Stunning bit of software.

bigredshark · 13 Jun 2008 at 13:19

BoomAM said:
Suggest to them one of the many VNC clients +server softwares available.
Ive just started playing with LanView3. Stunning bit of software.

Extra software to install, not configurable by group policy, need to pay for support again...I'd stick with a VPN and RDP myself...

BoomAM · 13 Jun 2008 at 19:45

bigredshark said:
Extra software to install, not configurable by group policy, need to pay for support again...I'd stick with a VPN and RDP myself...

It is configurable by group policy, to an extent, and it can help manage RDP connections.

Peace · 14 Jun 2008 at 09:20

well none of the big players have a working 64bit remote client as it's not high priority really.
You won't find a lot of companies using a 64bit OS on workstations or laptops at the moment for normal users...