[dba-Tech] Extranet VPN for testing customers' web sites/web API solutions

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

Hi Gustav --

I have just tried to setup SoftEther on my cloud VM and on my desktop. Setup worked well but then I have got stuck with it. I should remove it I suppose.

Yes, TeamViewer seems to be overpriced but it just worked like a charm. And I have used free version.

Is there anything comparable to TeamViewer, less expensive - with the feature to just setup a VPN to my cloud hosted MS Windows Server 2012 from my desktop and from my customers desktops?

Thank you.

-- Shamil


>Thursday, August  3, 2017 6:13 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
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>Hi Shamil
>
>Great. 
>I've always found TeamViewer to be overpriced, so let's hope that SoftEther will be successful.
>
>/gustav
>
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>Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil via dba-Tech
>Sendt: 3. august 2017 15:47
>Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>Cc: Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
>Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] Extranet VPN for testing customers' web sites/web API solutions
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>Hi Gustav et al --
>
>I have setup TeamViewer (v12.0.81460) on cloud MS Windows Server 2012 VM to allow unattended access (maybe basic access would have been enough I haven't checked).
>I have also setup TeamViewer (v12.0.81460) on my destop Win10 system.
>Then I have run TeamViewer and setup VPN using it to my MS Windows Server 2012.
>I have opened port 80 on cloud VM - and I have got access to the server web app running on this port - default IIS web app.
>Then I have setup my custom web service on port 4321, opened this port for TCP on server and I have got access to the custom web service via VPN and port 4321.
>
>So VPN works well - not sure how TeamViewer sets up VPN access internal - does it use netsh or not.
>
>I the coming days I will also try to use SoftEther VPN Open Source (   https://www.softether.org/  ) to setup VPN instead on TeamViewer.
>
>-- Shamil
>
>>Thursday, August  3, 2017 2:46 PM +03:00 from Salakhetdinov Shamil via dba-Tech < dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >:
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>>Hi Gustav --
>>
>>OK, I will give it a try and I will post here in the coming days on my testing results.
>>
>>-- Shamil
>>
>>
>>>Thursday, August  3, 2017 1:34 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock <  gustav at cactus.dk >:
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>>>Hi Shamil
>>>
>>>I can't tell about the VPN infrastructure as that must be a courtesy of your hosting provider, but as you have a VM and not just a web server, I guess no ports are blocked.
>>>
>>>The only way to find out if the netsh command will work, is to check it out. Even though port 80 is default for the HTTP protocol, I would explicitly specify it as you suggest.
>>>
>>>/gustav
>>> 
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