Should your 20 person remote office connect to your network via VPN / to access baan or should you set each PC to connect via Citrix accross the internet.

I can't say much about Citrix. The last time I worked with it was several years ago. Back then I found it annoying (slow, copying & pasting didn't work etc.) but that was one of the first versions and I guess that has improved by now.

If I log in remotely to a customer system it's almost always with Cisco or MS VPN. The only problem I have found is that downloading data directly from Baan to Excel with the OLE interface takes hours do do and is not feasible via VPN. But that is something most companies don't use and otherwise using VPN is without any problems and should work well for a remote office.

Karin

Phat,

u can directly use baan system thru remote location either thru VPN/ Citrix, no problems at all, we are using the BaaN thru VPN, its performance is also very good.

Through VPN.

We are connecting baan in many ways

LAN, Lease Line, ISDN, RAS (Dialup) & RF : Dedicate connectivity
Citrix, VPN : Over Internet

All are works perfectly, connectivity deployed according to work volume.

rgds

Through may ways: Lease Line, VPN, ISDN, RF, Citrix, Dialup networking.

Most of our locations are connected throuh Lease line.


Viplov