Chapter 24. Making Remote Network Connections

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Connecting to a Remote Desktop

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Using Virtual Private Network Connections

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The networking techniques you’ve seen so far have assumed some kind of physical or local wireless connection between machines. For standard peer-to-peer and client/server networks, the computers use either a network card/cable package or a wireless NIC to connect to each other either directly or indirectly via a hub or router. What do you do, however, when a local connection just isn’t possible? For example, suppose that you’re on the road with your notebook computer and need to access a file on your network server. Or suppose that ...

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