It had been discussed about setting up a virtual private network. I will do a more specific Goggle search, but is there anything detailed you can lead me to that will discuss what you are telling me. You have a lot more experience and I am hoping you have run into a good site that really gets into the nitty gritty (is that still used) of setting up the VPN network. Thanks again Don Subject: [mso] Re: Running office files over a remote network; Converting Times in Excel hundredths of a minute From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:07:57 -0500 Since you got answer 2 pretty easily, I'll stab at the rest of your solution need: If you allow remote access to the system, use a VPN solution and do not leave such data open on the Internet facing edge. When using a VPN, you also want to have policy based management of the inbound clients. For this you'll need to either install a Gateway system over your VPN or use something like Microsoft's ISA servers for managing your remote hosts. Greg Chapman ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************