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ok so then yes you would be looking at a vpn based solution ideally. you can easily just run openswan or somethign similar in both sites and as long as you are correct with your routing between the sites in the tunnel, i.e. only addresses on the local subnet exist down the tunnel and vice versa in the other location then the VPN should come together really quickly.
you mention writing to a database... what kind? if you're looking at samba then that make me think of MS Access... eww...
Not at all.
The xp machines will be reading / writing to sql on the linux server.
So openswan for the linux box, and what for the xp machines.
All that is in that office 10 hours away is t1 netgear firewall and the xpmachines.
What vpn software can I use on those machines?
And also... When I get the vpn up and they can communicate together via samba, it will show up on their desktop / dir as a regular folder yes?
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