DaveWoodward
Technical User
Folks,
I have a Delphi application that connects to SQL server 2K.
Recently another part of the company wanted to use the application, but the connection between us goes through a number of firewalls. The only solution that I have been able to come up with so far is for the new users to VPN into the server to use the application, but this is a real pain for them.
Is there an obvious alternative? No 're-write as a web app' please!
I have thought about setting the remote users up with a separatae server and then merge replicating betwen the two, but that would require a VPN connection to allow the replication to work (I presume). How would that work? What would open the VPN connection and close it after the replication was complete? What would happen to users that were connected at both the main server and the remote one when the VPN link was started?
Any thoughts gratefully received.....
I have a Delphi application that connects to SQL server 2K.
Recently another part of the company wanted to use the application, but the connection between us goes through a number of firewalls. The only solution that I have been able to come up with so far is for the new users to VPN into the server to use the application, but this is a real pain for them.
Is there an obvious alternative? No 're-write as a web app' please!
I have thought about setting the remote users up with a separatae server and then merge replicating betwen the two, but that would require a VPN connection to allow the replication to work (I presume). How would that work? What would open the VPN connection and close it after the replication was complete? What would happen to users that were connected at both the main server and the remote one when the VPN link was started?
Any thoughts gratefully received.....