AS400 Remote Access Setup Advices.

[rolmank]

Hi all, need advices from all.

My customer company intend to setup a remote office and all clients want to access the AS400 Data. The AS400 is sitting in the main office.

We intend to use ADSL line(cut cost) for the remote office with 2 Cisco routers at each sites. But how we going to configure the remote access for the clients??? And can ADSL line able to fulfill the objective? Or we need to change to leased line/ISDN line??

Pls advice.

Thanks and Regards
Rolank

 

[flapeyre]

We have a Cisco firewall at the office, so I connect remorely through my ADSL line and the Cisco VPN client. Very secure, and almost as fast as being at my desk in the office. For a client, we use either Rumba or ViewNow (we have an enterprise-wide licence).


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[jmd0252]

Do you have the remote clients connected to a standard network,, ie windows, and are you running TCP/IP? If so then setup TCP/IP on the AS400. Then configure client acess to hit the AS400 over TCP/IP. As long as you can "ping" the AS400 you are good to go. If you can ping the DSN name or ping the address, you are OK. We have wide area connections for our people so they can get their Lotus email, and they can connect fine to the AS400. As far as performance,, I am guessing you will be running "green screen" apps, and passing data over those speed lines works fine.

 

[rolmank]

Hi all, great to have all advices.

Million of thanks.

Thanks and Regards
Rolank

 

[rolmank]

Hi all, one more question need advice.

Regarding the Client access, can I use the IBM Client Access for the remote office??

And can advice on how to configure on the remote client??

Thanks.

Thanks and Regards
Rolank

 

[jmd0252]

Sure,,, when you start setting up the client access,,, you specify the machine to connect to as the DSN name or the IP address..