[nfbcs] VPN on a Terminal Server

[Steve Jacobson]

Leslie,

Nancy is right, but I believe that you have to be running JFW on both machines to use this feature.  Sometimes it can be difficult to get a screen reader installed on a remote machine for testing or on a machine 
that is used by multiple people.  Employers don't want to risk software they know bringing down a machine that affects multiple users.  Of course we know screen readers never crash, but others don't 
necessarily know that.  <smile>

There are times when the remote computer simply isn't practical.  Employer's sometime use it as an approach so that they only have to install software on one computer.  An employer can usually get by with 
purchasing fewer licenses.  If it isn't practical to install a screen reader on the remote machine, it is sometimes a reasonable accommodation to allow a blind employee to have copies of software on their 
machine.  People to use the remote approach successfully, though.

I didn't see if you got an answer about VPN or not.  VPN is simply a way to make a secure connection to a network through the internet.  In other words, when a VPN connection is made, your computer will act 
as though it is at the remote site.  It will have the same capabilities and even limitations of computers on the remote network.  For example, when I connect to my employer through VPN, I can access servers 
and internet sites that I can access when I am here at work.  Without a VPN connection, much of what I access here at work cannot be accessed through the internet.  Another way of saying it is that VPN 
provides a tunnel from my remote computer through my employer's firewall so that my remote computer is behind the firewall just as though I were at my desk.

VPN is completely separate from remote desktop, but it is probably required in your example to be able to reach the terminal server from outside of the company.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Tue, 8 May 2012 07:45:54 -0500, nancy coffman wrote:

>It allows jaws to read the screen of a. Computer you are not at so you can use the programs & dara on it from your workstation. Without the remote option you can only read your own workstation.

>nancy coffman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leslie Fairall <fairall at shellworld.net>
>Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 4:30 PM
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>Subject: Re: [nfbcs] VPN on a Terminal Server

>What does the JFW remote desktop license allow you to do? What are its 
>limitation?

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