"Colin A" wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering what you all would consider the best way to connect to our
> office network via the Internet over Broadband.....?
>
> Our firewall is CheckPoint Firewall-1, and I know there are a number of
> different ways of doing it.... The type of apps the user would be
accessing
> are Terminal Server and Email (they could do that via TS if they wanted..)
>
> Any pointers would be very welcome...
>
> Thanks
> Colin

The easiest way from a technical standpoint is to expose Terminal Server to
an your outside IP by mapping port 3289. You better be sure your TS box is
patched and you have good authentication though, and makes sure you have
your server and clients set up to encrypt the connection. If you want some
further security you can actually configure the clients to report a custom
version number, and then set the server to accept connections for this
version number only, there's a MS KB on this. Then you can configure the
server, client, and firewall to connect on another port than the standard.
Do all these things and you're pretty darn safe. You can't beat TS for easy
remote connects though. Do you email through it too. What it won't give
you is file access, you can either mail files in and out via personal email
accounts or apply the MS TS clipboard patch to let you cut and paste more
than just text -- a bit flakey but sometimes works.


-Russ.