[SPAM] Re: Printing

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-
> list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Clay
Brown
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:51 PM
> To: 'filePro'
> Subject: RE: [SPAM] Re: Printing
> 
> My main two problems with RDP are Cost of Terminal Services Licenses and
> I don't want users to have any access to the filepro data files. Of
> course they will have access to them but since they are telneting to the
> server and a script starts filepro and when you exit the script telnet
> logs users off so they never see a command prompt. The filepro files are
> not on a share so the actual program's files are not visible to a user
> unless they log on to the server console or RDP and only 2 admins have
> RDP Access. It is on a Internal network behind a very good firewall and
> uses nt auth for username and password on the telnet login so there is
> no username or password entered. Either you have access to telnet
> clients group and it works or you don't and you get access denied and no
> logins are transmitted over the network in clear text. There is no
> credit card processing just a bunch of database reads and writes with
> some confidential data.  I believe in the past we have had a user copy
> the program files off her pc and the data files off the server share so
> they could steal the data but this is speculation and I can't prove it.
> This should solve that problem in the future. Unless anyone has any
> better ideas. I at first wanted to convert everything back over to *nix
> like it was in the late 80's then in early 90's was ported over to dos.
> This should fix the headache of porting to *nix and setting up virtual
> server for a *nix Box. My other concern is network bandwidth. RDP Uses
> more than telnet and I already have all my users reading and writing all
> their files to a share on the server then I have NAS as a backup only
> the server writes to and we have 2 high volume copiers that are in use a
> lot digitizing a records room so the customer can get rid of about 120 5
> drawer lateral files all slam full. Those copiers also scan their data
> to the network shares on the file server.
> 
> Clay Brown
> Walker Business Machines
> (334)222-6255 Voice
> (334)222-8055 Fax
> 4 West Court Square
> Andalusia, Al 36420
> http://www.walkerbusiness.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+clay=andycomputer.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+clay=andycomputer.com at lists.celestial.com]
> On Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:09 PM
> To: filePro
> Subject: [SPAM] Re: Printing
> 
> clay at andycomputer.com wrote:
> 
> >I have a couple of questions both related. I have a new server I'm
> installing. Windows based. I want to use telnet instead of network
> shares to access filepro. That way no user has actual access to the data
> files over the network.
> >
> 
> I hope you aren't planning on having any kind of credit card
> information.
> Telnet  (unless you run telnet under ssh) is pretty much prohibited for
> PCI compliance
> which you must meet if you handle credit cards.
> 
> What's wrong with RDP?

Chris,

One of my client's has 20 people using terminal server and they never see a
desktop.  When they log in, a filepro script runs requesting login
information and verifies that they access to the system.  Their user menu
appears giving them access to the runtime application.  When they <X> out of
the menu, they are logged off.

I am even doing something similar to this on a single user machine where a
script runs at startup, the user never sees the desktop.  This particular
computer is brought up in Kiosk mode as it is used at our communities gate
house.


Richard Kreiss