This is a no go as my clients won't be spending thousands of dollars on buying a server + the licenses...

The app I'm selling is very cheap, and I need a very cost-effective solution...

Happy New Year!

----- Original Message -----
From: Anderson Farias
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] What do YOU use for secure connections to the DB?


Hi,

> Currently, both the clients and the server are running on Windows, but we
> might move to Linux servers later in the future.
> What do you guys suggest?

Well, for client/server apps I've been using a diferent aproach. Instead of
using some tunneling, I sugest customers to setup a Windows TS server to
everyone using the system over internet or some other slow/remote network.

This gives zero configuration at client side (plus easy app updates), easy
to secure server side (FB server is on a diferent sever on same network as
TS server) a very good performing.

Of course, this is not the cheapest solution since you have to buy a Windows
(NT) server + TS licences. BUT... It's not the most expansive too. And --
for those apps build using Delphi or other Windows compiler -- you can even
use Linux workstations accessing the server using RDesktop.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

=)

Regards,
Anderson Farias





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