Terminal Services?

Is this the correct way to go if you have remote users? I've always been
under the impression that if you have remote users, you would have htem
connect to the network through VPN, then map drives and they can then start
there applications. I'm being told that I should be having them use
terminal services.

What would your opinion be?

VPN and Terminal Services are two completely different things. You can
even use both together.

Remote access (RAS and VPN) is a method of connecting to a machine or
network from a remote location. It gives you a routed connection to the
remote location so that you can access files and other resources.

Terminal services is quite different. It gives you access to
applications on the terminal server. The program runs on the terminal
server, not on the client machine. Only KVM (keyboard, video and mouse)
information goes across the remote link.

Stranger wrote:
> Is this the correct way to go if you have remote users? I've always
> been under the impression that if you have remote users, you would
> have htem connect to the network through VPN, then map drives and
> they can then start there applications. I'm being told that I should
> be having them use terminal services.
>
> What would your opinion be?

That is what I thought. So it would make no since for one to have there
employees use terminal services from home when the only thing they would be
accessing are file shares and email.


"Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
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> VPN and Terminal Services are two completely different things. You can
> even use both together.
>
> Remote access (RAS and VPN) is a method of connecting to a machine or
> network from a remote location. It gives you a routed connection to the
> remote location so that you can access files and other resources.
>
> Terminal services is quite different. It gives you access to
> applications on the terminal server. The program runs on the terminal
> server, not on the client machine. Only KVM (keyboard, video and mouse)
> information goes across the remote link.
>
> Stranger wrote:
>> Is this the correct way to go if you have remote users? I've always
>> been under the impression that if you have remote users, you would
>> have htem connect to the network through VPN, then map drives and
>> they can then start there applications. I'm being told that I should
>> be having them use terminal services.
>>
>> What would your opinion be?
>
>

Correct. Terminal services is of no use to you unless the application
runs on the server. You need RAS/VPN if the app runs on the client.

Stranger wrote:
> That is what I thought. So it would make no since for one to have
> there employees use terminal services from home when the only thing
> they would be accessing are file shares and email.
>
>
> "Bill Grant" <not.available@online> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> VPN and Terminal Services are two completely different things.
>> You can even use both together.
>>
>> Remote access (RAS and VPN) is a method of connecting to a
>> machine or network from a remote location. It gives you a routed
>> connection to the remote location so that you can access files and
>> other resources. Terminal services is quite different. It gives you
>> access to
>> applications on the terminal server. The program runs on the terminal
>> server, not on the client machine. Only KVM (keyboard, video and
>> mouse) information goes across the remote link.
>>
>> Stranger wrote:
>>> Is this the correct way to go if you have remote users? I've always
>>> been under the impression that if you have remote users, you would
>>> have htem connect to the network through VPN, then map drives and
>>> they can then start there applications. I'm being told that I
>>> should be having them use terminal services.
>>>
>>> What would your opinion be?