Remote Access

We are working towards having remote access from my home office to work Small Business Server 2011 - on Windows 7 professional. We believe all is set up and in order but current router not permitting access via port forwarding, so we thought a new router would allow. I will be accessing from NBN satellite to ADSL1. Thought Cisco 520W Router may be good option. Your advice would be appreciated.

Reply by Chris from Far Edge Pty Ltd on Thursday, 31 May, 2012 - 14:18

You just need to make sure: - you have a static IP - You setup correct DNS entries and matching SSL cert (typically remote.yourdomain.com.au) - You setup the required TCP port forwards: 80 / 443 / 4125 Any questions let me know, Regards, Chris Herrmann Far Edge

Reply by n/a from Rococo IT on Thursday, 7 June, 2012 - 14:19

Port 4125 does not need to be open, infact the only port that does is 443. Having said that, I'd prefer you put in a firewall and had your users VPN into your work network before they were able to access the server. A reclaimed PC (Pentium 4 and above) and install an open source firewall in pfSense (http://pfSense.org) or Endian (http://endian.com) and then install the openvpn software on the users machine.