How do I setup a NetGear VPN? (FVS114)
I've got a netgear FVS114 VPN router and want to setup a VPN so that people can connect to it and be able to copy files back and forth. Effectively, what I want to do is be able to do file sharing through the VPN.
1st question: Do I have to get NetGears ProSafe client to connect to the netgear VPN? I'd prefer to just use Windows to do the connecting if at all possible.
2nd question: How do I set this thing up properly? I was assuming that since clients would be connecting that I'd have to setup usernames and passwords and all that, but I don't see anyplace in the policies to do that.
3rd: Ultimately we'd like to connect to the VPN and then run our quickbooks over it so that the auditors file and the bookkeepers file are always the same. Is this feasible? I'm not convinced that the performance will be all that acceptable, but it's what they want to do to prevent further issues where the auditor corrects something and the bookkeeper keeps using the older, incorrect file.
1st question: Do I have to get NetGears ProSafe client to connect to the netgear VPN? I'd prefer to just use Windows to do the connecting if at all possible.
2nd question: How do I set this thing up properly? I was assuming that since clients would be connecting that I'd have to setup usernames and passwords and all that, but I don't see anyplace in the policies to do that.
3rd: Ultimately we'd like to connect to the VPN and then run our quickbooks over it so that the auditors file and the bookkeepers file are always the same. Is this feasible? I'm not convinced that the performance will be all that acceptable, but it's what they want to do to prevent further issues where the auditor corrects something and the bookkeeper keeps using the older, incorrect file.
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Thanks for all of your detailed help guys. It's nice to have experts answered that actually know what they're talking about. (I've run into a few retards here and there :) )
I'm going to split points but I've opened a new thread because I have another seperate VPN question.
Question #2: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21844763/What-are-the-correct-ports-to-forward-for-an-XP-VPN.html
I'm going to split points but I've opened a new thread because I have another seperate VPN question.
Question #2: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21844763/What-are-the-correct-ports-to-forward-for-an-XP-VPN.html
Thank you Sootah,
--Rob
--Rob
Rob, that's excellent info. Thanks.
amohat, useful bit of information to have handy isn't it.
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--Rob
I wasn't aware of all of the hosting services you provided, so we all learned here. Good question. :-)
--Rob
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I didn't think that the QuickBooks over the VPN would be feasible, but I figured I'd ask.
I use PCAnywhere/Remote Desktop all the time. However, where we've got multiple client machines it's not feasible to use that as the way of accessing the QB data because there's going to be 5 properites all needing access to the accounting stuff at any given time.
The main concern here is the QuickBooks issue. More than anything the de-synch problem I mentioned above needs to be rectified. It's really annoying for the auditor and the bookkeeper both if the bookkeeper forgets to update her file with the corrected one and then makes a bunch of additions to the older, crappy file.
Since the VPN won't work like I really hoped it would, do you have any specific suggetions for the QB issue? (Like links to the online resources, etc)
Also, since you can't connect to the Netgear VPN with the standard Windows client, what client should I use? I'm pretty sure you have to buy NetGear's client.