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Remote access to network for external sales consultants
I am looking for advice on the best way to enable remote access for external sales to our network.
External sales guys currently own their own laptops, a range of O/S, brands etc. They are not joined to our domain, they work independently with an email account only provided by the company.
Internal sales has requested that external sales have access to shared folder on our network for sales to login and update quotes etc.
What is the best way to enable this. I do not want to go down VPN route due to company not owning equipment, different o/s, no managment of Avirus etc, users have home o/s not business. Also the support and managment of this equipemnet.
Any suggesetions....?
External sales guys currently own their own laptops, a range of O/S, brands etc. They are not joined to our domain, they work independently with an email account only provided by the company.
Internal sales has requested that external sales have access to shared folder on our network for sales to login and update quotes etc.
What is the best way to enable this. I do not want to go down VPN route due to company not owning equipment, different o/s, no managment of Avirus etc, users have home o/s not business. Also the support and managment of this equipemnet.
Any suggesetions....?
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can a Sharepoint server for sharing documents possible? then you can have a website on Internet side which can be accessed by external and Internal users for sharing the required documents with specific permissions.
It may be system failure event log is disabled. you can enable it to get more information when the system crashes.
right click on Mycomputer and click on properties.
select advanced Tab
enable the "Write an event to the system log" under system failure.
You can disable Automatically Restart so that you can view the BSOD when system crashes. but this can delay the reboot of the system as this will require manual reboot.
right click on Mycomputer and click on properties.
select advanced Tab
enable the "Write an event to the system log" under system failure.
You can disable Automatically Restart so that you can view the BSOD when system crashes. but this can delay the reboot of the system as this will require manual reboot.
You could simply dedicate a computer on the network and enable remote desktop on it. Allowing the external sales guys to login using their credentials. However only one session will be allowed at a time unless using a server which is limitated at 2 if no additional terminal licences are purchased.
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Hi,
The current setup is as follows..
WebServer is offsite and hosted by host Ireland.
File Server is a windows 2003 SBS
We currently have a Fortinet 200B firewall, and a range of windows 2003 and windows 2008 SBS.
Remote access to a single PC would not work as there will be upto 10 people accessing this.
The SSL VPN connection on the Fortinet, I must research this option and see what the capabilites are?
Another option I was thinking of was FTP Server. Although they want to upload all quotes and a spreadsheet to be populated so a lot of manual work involved there....
My ideal solution would be
VPN's - Equipment owned and configured by company
A CRM System - Not just for this requirement, but basically the deparment is growing quite rapidly and they keep looking for quick fixes, they still dont know exactly what they want and have not documented exact requirements however in the meantime IT need to implement a solution.
The current setup is as follows..
WebServer is offsite and hosted by host Ireland.
File Server is a windows 2003 SBS
We currently have a Fortinet 200B firewall, and a range of windows 2003 and windows 2008 SBS.
Remote access to a single PC would not work as there will be upto 10 people accessing this.
The SSL VPN connection on the Fortinet, I must research this option and see what the capabilites are?
Another option I was thinking of was FTP Server. Although they want to upload all quotes and a spreadsheet to be populated so a lot of manual work involved there....
My ideal solution would be
VPN's - Equipment owned and configured by company
A CRM System - Not just for this requirement, but basically the deparment is growing quite rapidly and they keep looking for quick fixes, they still dont know exactly what they want and have not documented exact requirements however in the meantime IT need to implement a solution.
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Even with SBS2003, the Companyweb can be made avaiable remotely. Set port forwarding using port 444 to go to the Companyweb and set up an A record at your DNS host for companyweb.companyname.com
Use the documents section for the sales people to share docs.
Quick and easy, implement a SSL cert for added security instead of the self signed cert if you are concerned with it.
Use the documents section for the sales people to share docs.
Quick and easy, implement a SSL cert for added security instead of the self signed cert if you are concerned with it.
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They have provided a final requirements list....
An excel spreadsheet with hyperlinks to quotes which are stored in a directory on our common drive on the internal LAN. Users need to be able to open the hyperlinks to view quotes. Each user must have a unique login and password and only access to their spreadsheet and quotes. A log of access is also required for each user.
This pretty much rules out sharepoing, webpage access, ftp, remote access on a single PC.
My only real option is VPN.?? I need to see if there is a way I can manage VPN's withough too much hassel or security implication using their own equipement.....
Unless anyone has any further recommendations.....
An excel spreadsheet with hyperlinks to quotes which are stored in a directory on our common drive on the internal LAN. Users need to be able to open the hyperlinks to view quotes. Each user must have a unique login and password and only access to their spreadsheet and quotes. A log of access is also required for each user.
This pretty much rules out sharepoing, webpage access, ftp, remote access on a single PC.
My only real option is VPN.?? I need to see if there is a way I can manage VPN's withough too much hassel or security implication using their own equipement.....
Unless anyone has any further recommendations.....