I have a friend using mvBASE who lost their network guy. They now need to
allow access to the server over the internet (enable a Pick user). Does
anyone have a quick setup list they could post to configure the system? Just
need to allow someone to ip in and logon. Thanks!

Ed

You can redirect port 23 on your firewall/router to redirect to your mvBASE
server. Providing the telnet server is running this will just give you a
login if you just telnet to your routers public ip address over the
internet.

This is VERY bad news - it's completely insecure and opens your mvbase
server to open access.

Better is to switch on VPN access on your server (if it's windows
2000/windows 2003 this can be done be configuring remoting and remote access
to do so), set up a windows user to allow remote access (make sure it has a
password), then redirect port 1723 on yuor firewall/router to your mvBase
server. Your external user can then configure windows VPN access to your
public ip address and then login with the user name and password that you've
set up in windows for remote access... Once he's connected he can then use
mvBase aas if he was on the local network.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Simon
"Ed Sheehan" <NOedsSPAM (AT) xmission (DOT) com> wrote

Thanks, Simon. I'll forward this info to them and see how far they get.

Ed

"Simon Verona" <nomail (AT) nomail (DOT) zzz> wrote