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Started by Gregory Tsam
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
ISDN, Internet, SQL-Database, connectivity
Author: Gregory Tsam
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
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An introduction before the question: (used hardware/software is IBM-Compatible, Windows 3.11, Win95) I recently completed a project-tracking-system for a large company in Berlin. I used Guptabase 6.0 as the server database and MS Access as frontends. The company has several branches spread over Germany which are all connected via ISDN and they use the database to adjust the collection of invitations to bid, offers and contracts (orders). It's a central based system, the headquarter is crosschecking the inputs at later stages and release the following stages for further input. It's completed for now, but the controlling department likes to have an extention for their needs, so my tasks as a database administrator will grow even more. But I am living in London, and the company is based in Berlin. An easy solution would be to ask British Telecom to install an ISDN-line from which I could (with the help of an TA-card) directly login to the companies server. A quite costful solution, esp. when regarding the even higher international phone costs/unit when using ISDN. So here's my question: Is it possible to login to a remote server without establishing a direct connection, e.g. with the help of the internet. I know some basics of TCP/IP and winsock and I am thinking of the following scenario: Before logging in I would give the company a short call so that they could establish a connection with their internet-provider. I would connect to the internet and so we both would have an online IP-Adress. I recognized an WinSock(TCP/IP) interface option in the setup for SQLBase, so it shouldn't be a big deal then? Or as a test, what do I need to connect generally to a remote server/workstation over the internet with TCP/IP, for directly copying files from the workstations harddrive for example. Any suggestions are very welcome, Andi
Re: ISDN, Internet, SQL-Database, connectivity
Author: Brian Tillman
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4ljgt1$83h@alpha.ftech.net>, tsam@watanabe.ftech.co.uk says... > >An introduction before the question: > >(used hardware/software is IBM-Compatible, Windows 3.11, Win95) The newsgroup vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp is not, _not_, NOT! for the discussion of Windows-based TCP/IP. It is for the discussion of Attachmate Pathway for OpenVMS, a TCP/IP package for the OpenVMS operating system running on Digital VAX and Alpha computers. In a former life, this package was named WIN/TCP and that's how the newsgroup got its name. There are plenty of other newsgroups where the discussion of Windows-based TCP/IPs would be appropriate, such as comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip, to which this message was addressed in addition to vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp and to which I've set the follow-up for this message. -- -----------------------------+-------------------------------- Brian Tillman | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com Smiths Industries, Inc. | tillman_brian@si.com 4141 Eastern Ave., MS239 | Hey, I said this stuff myself. Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it. -----------------------------+--------------------------------
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