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Securing servers without a fixed IP

Hi

I work with several remote desktops on Windows servers. Because I can't have a fixed IP (since 3G is the only broadband option, ADSL is too slow to be usable) I have the setup such that only one is externally accessible via RDP to any IP, and to get onto the others, I have to RDP onto the first, main one and reach them from there (secured against that fixed IP)

Have posted separately about the possibility of fixed IPs with 3G, but cost is too high, and we don't even have a phone line because the quality of it is so bad it's useless so I don't really want to go down the route of having that just for a fixed IP.

I've never really worked with VPN software; forgive my ignorance - would this provide a way around this?

And/or - as a workaround: is it possible to set up the main server in such a way that I could use the route command in Windows to route, say, FTP access to server 3 via server 1, and the VPN secures that so only I can take that route?

Thanks,
Mark
 
Well it depends what you want to do with that VPN but if you set one up on a dynamic IP connection then it would still be affected by a change of IP address. Now it's been awhile since I did this but there use to be services like DynaIP (don't think it exists anymore), which could get around this by updating your IP every time it changed to a central online database and giving you a domain name. This domain could then be called instead of the IP and never changed. Like I say, I'm not sure what options there are for this now but somebody must still run such a software/service.
 
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Hi

I work with several remote desktops on Windows servers. Because I can't have a fixed IP (since 3G is the only broadband option, ADSL is too slow to be usable) I have the setup such that only one is externally accessible via RDP to any IP, and to get onto the others, I have to RDP onto the first, main one and reach them from there (secured against that fixed IP)

Have posted separately about the possibility of fixed IPs with 3G, but cost is too high, and we don't even have a phone line because the quality of it is so bad it's useless so I don't really want to go down the route of having that just for a fixed IP.

I've never really worked with VPN software; forgive my ignorance - would this provide a way around this?

And/or - as a workaround: is it possible to set up the main server in such a way that I could use the route command in Windows to route, say, FTP access to server 3 via server 1, and the VPN secures that so only I can take that route?

Thanks,
Mark

do you set up vpn right way. for win 7
1. Click on Start.
2. Click on Controlpanel.
3. Click on Network and Internet.
4. Click on Network and Sharing Centre.
5. Click on Create connection or network.
6. Click on Connect to a workplace and click on Next. Some customers might get the question about connecting to an existing network, choose No, create a new connection and click on Next.
7. Click on Use my Internet Connection.
 
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