Clarion in general: Poor mans client server package 2002-03-07 -- Michael Gould and Ron Jolda Newsgroups: softvelocity.products.c55ee > > A potetial customer wants to by my programm (very nice). He has five > > offices > > across the country. In any office he wants to look and work on data that is > > in the other offices.there is no possibility for a common database at one > > office. > > What solutions are there for this problem. > > Can this be done with Clarionet but without internet broker.? > > How about a VPN ? > > PCAnywhere ? Go to www.radmin.com and download Radmin. The package is only $35.00 for a server and client. It blows the doors off of anything else we've used including PCAnywhere, VNC and many others. It's basically a poor man's Citrix and works very well as a remote control program. We purchased a large amount of "server" licenses so that we can install these on the client workstations. By passing through a server with a public IP address, we can get to any workstation in the network if we have the proper security. Another nice feature is that since this runs on the WinNT/2000 as well, it can use NT security. Michael Gould > You could do this with pcAnywhere - this would allow him to dial up or > connect via internet to any other office and look at their data and run > their app. > The choice comes down to the requirements and the $$$$. > > 1. If he just wants to look at the data "after hours" or if he can kick the > user off the local computer at any time - simple pcAnywhere. > > 2. If he wants to look at the data at any time and does not want higher > costs then he could put in a "dummy pc" at each office that he could dial > into with pcAnywhere at any time and look at the data. > > 3. The Thin client solution (Terminal Server, CWIC, ClarioNet) comes into > play when you NEED TO SHARE DATA REAL TIME across people/offices. In this > fashion, you need to set up one central data server that holds all the data > sets and all users need to connect to it - dial up or via internet. They > can then all share real time data and data changes. > > HTH, > Ron Jolda > Printed November 21, 2024, 7:15 am This article has been viewed/printed 35221 times. Google search has resulted in 58 hits on this article since January 25, 2004. |