From: mille@afm.at   
      
   On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:37:24 -0500, "Stacy E"    
   wrote:   
      
   >I am just curious as to whether VPN connections are (or can be) as fast or   
   >faster than terminal services. Does anyone have any info/ experience in that   
   >regard?   
      
   Just the one that you compare apple and oranges.   
      
   VPN is the way you securely connect two systems (or devices) whereas   
   TS really is a service that runs on the server and runs _via_ a VPN   
   tunnel (or not).   
      
   Basically TS just gives you the screen that you would see if you would   
   be sitting in front of the remote machine. But otherwise no data is   
   transferred (in the standard setups). The system which calls up the TS   
   Client session in fact does not have a network connection to the   
   Terminal server with the SMB protocol, i.e. you can't browse the   
   servers drives in your _local_ network neighborhood. Again only the   
   graphical content of the screen is transferred, which greatly reduces   
   the total amount of traffic.   
      
   A Terminal Client is usually used _via_ a VPN tunnel.   
      
   That said, if you use a VPN Tunnel to open up a Terminal Session it   
   could be slower than opening up a Terminal Session directly via the   
   internet. That, however, implies security risks as you have to open   
   the system up to the net.   
      
   And if you use DSL to connect both nodes to the internet I can assure   
   you running a TS Client via VPN is _really_ fast.   
      
   >Thanks!   
   >Stacy   
      
   Anytime   
      
   Wolfgang   
      
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