[THIN] Re: Anyone use a thin client through a VPN?

  • From: "Mat" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 07:14:07 +0100

Have a look at the rather nice Chippc thin clients.
www.chippc.com

They have a VPN addon that may do what you want.

regards


----- Original Message -----
From: "Zachary Neria" <ZNeria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:36 AM
Subject: [THIN] Anyone use a thin client through a VPN?


> Afternoon Everybody,
>
> Ok I've got a good one for you all (I think). I have two company plants,
one
> in the California USA (where I'm at), and one in Mexicali, Mexico.
Currently
> I have a 512 WAN connection to my Mexicali plant. In the Mexicali plant I
> have about 20 users on Wyse thin clients running WinCe.
> My dilemma is this, the plant in Cali, is moving to another city and to
make
> a long story short I'm going to lose my 512 WAN connection for about 20
days
> =( Now, my backup plan is to put the users and servers in Mexicali,
through
> a wireless VPN connection and come through my internet Checkpoint T1
> firewall in California. I have installed the Checkpoint firewall client on
> my PC users in Mexicali, they authenticate with my firewall in California
> and it works great. But my thin clients are at a loss because they cannot
> authenticate with my firewall, obviously because they have no client
> installed. There is a CE version of the Checkpoint client, but it's not
for
> thin clients, only for handheld devices.
> The move date is three weeks away and I'm starting to get a little
nervous.
> If anybody has any insight into this, I'm open to anything at this point.
> Short of spending 100 grand though =)
>
> Zachary Neria
> Citrix and Network Administrator
> Jonathan Engineered Solutions
>
>
>
>
>
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