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Speed up remote access to Windows network resources

Tim Fenner
07.07.2005
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Applications often run slowly when remote users connect to corporate resources. Typically, the basic general layout looks like this:

===> (VPN tunnel)

---> (Unencrypted traffic)

Remote PC ===> Internet ===> VPN/Firewall ---> Server

In this scenario, the server holds the resources that you need high-speed access to, the external PC has the programs to access th

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ose resources, and the remote PC uses a VPN connection to access the server (which houses the desired resources).

Here's a way for you to hopefully speed up this issue in your environment (for free if you use Windows XP Pro). You will use a "middle man PC" to access the network resources instead of having the remote system connect directly to it. Basically, you will need to have a PC that is in a remote location and a PC on your internal network. Here's what you do:

New basic general layout:

===> (VPN tunnel)

---> (Unencrypted traffic)

Remote PC ===> Internet ===> VPN/Firewall ---> Internal PC ---> Server

In this scenario, the server holds resources you need high-speed access to, the internal PC has the programs installed to access those resources and the remote PC uses a Remote Desktop session to connect to the internal PC (which then accesses the server resources).

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