RE: want to allow easy home access to iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

Richard, do you happen to know the folks at logmein? This sounds a little like TeamViewer, another "great" service for remote access. These folk make me nervous. First, you didn't hear of them yesterday, and today they have 100 gazillion customers. Second, you're basically handing them your network and asking them to control who has access to it... all in your interest, and all for free. Say, what? Who pays for their servers, communications equipment, operations and whatnot? Is this out of the kindness of their hearts, or is there more to it than meets the eye?

Same with those services that'll "keep your data safe and away from prying eyes" network storage solution centers. Here's some money and all my business and personal details. Please be sure nobody sees them. I trust you because you have cool advertising.

And don't get me started about all the cool things Google is doing "for us."

Call me skeptical, but I'd like to know of one of these that somebody actually *knows*.

I am not picking on you nor on your post. This is just an area of interest for me.
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Dennis
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"Richard Schoen" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why not use Logmein.com ?

Set up an internal desktop with just the apps on it that are needed and
let them at it.

No cost and no open firewall ports.

If you decide to open up Telnet, you might want to open up Port 21023
and map to Port 23 or similar so it doesn't sniff like a Telnet port if
someone hits the address.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Burns, Bryan
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: want to allow easy home access to iSeries

Thanks for the input david. We do have a VPN and I can use client
access and the VPN to get on from home.

We have a handful of distributors that need to get on to do forecasting
and don't have any network credentials so a VPN isn't something
management wants to set up for them.

It's hard to tell from the Mochasoft advocates whether they're using a
VPN or opening up port 23.

Bryan

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