Computer/Network Geek
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I'm overqualified but let me know what you need. Been in the business for 10 years.
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Here's basically what I need and have.
5 offices and a shop hard wired to one spot. Need that networked together. At least three computers will be connected that way plus a copier/fax. As for the wireless there will be 2 computers in and out of the office to connect to it(pretty simple there). I do not know the difficulty of the copier end of it, brand new, but it will scan copy and send a file straight to the desktop of the selected computer. Can you figure it out(I can but I won't have much time to figure it all out)The main /secretary computer will have our companies AP/AR on it but will need to get into it via remote(internet) or from other offices. Other than that basic scanners/printers and so forth. One thing I am not too sure of is I think I need a new paper feed printer as our old one is a 9 pin 14X11, new software will probally not print correctly on it nor do we need it for report print outs. Have not seen software yet?????As far as the PM's please respond again now that I gave a run down on what I have.... Hourly or what????
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Haha I should pull that thing off of the damn car or just give you my other one that's sitting fresh in the box.
As far as what you want done, it is more than doable. Only expensive part I'd recommend is using a Firewall/VPN combo on the outside so that you can get to your AR/AP box remotely using a VPN client and not just trusting it to anybody out on the internet. Never know who is out there.
Figure $500-600 for the router/firewall/vpn box w/ client software (this will also act as an 8 port switch), around $75 for wireless access point, and then probably 6-8 hours of installation/training time to make everything happen. Normally I'd quote from $750 -> $1000 for labor at my standard rate but PM me and we can work out a deal.
Not terribly cheap but it's just like cars...
Cheap, Secure, Reliable - Pick 2
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Also to make sure I read this right, the cabling is pulled and in place already, correct?
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integra_gsr98;187413 wrote:
Also to make sure I read this right, the cabling is pulled and in place already, correct?
Cabling should be in place next week some time. Twin Cat5 one for phone one for network.. All pulled to one spot.As far as VPN I have an idea what they are talking about but have no clue as to what they are saying, maybe that is not neccesary?????
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Private_Networkwtf -
Basically imagine that you are sitting at a hotel somewhere and need to access your AR/AP machine.
You would open up a piece of software on your laptop and connect back to your office network with this software. Once you enter your username and password you would have full access to anything on the inside of your network whether you needed to print something, access files on your AR/AP machine, remote desktop into that machine to enter an invoice or look one up or whatever you needed to do.
Also it gets set up so that if you are not using the VPN client, you are unable to access these files remotely which is guaranteeing that unless someone is granted access to connect to the VPN, they wont be able to potentially get to your data without you knowing.
One way to take this further as well, is if you have multiple offices that need to be connected all the time, it is possible to do site-to-site vpn's between offices so that if you need to print to a printer across town or wherever, or share files, etc it can all be done all the time and securely and you dont have to pay for costly private circuits between locations.
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BTW that wikipedia entry is overly confusing.
Picture the internet as a lake/ocean with your office on one side and you on the other. To send something to your office, you have to float it across the top of the lake where anybody can intercept it along the way.
Now picture a VPN as a bridge across the lake connecting you to your office that only you are able to use. The security provided by that bridge is what makes VPNs a must have in this day and age.
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integra_gsr98;187420 wrote:
Basically imagine that you are sitting at a hotel somewhere and need to access your AR/AP machine.You .............locations.
I understand a little better now, we have done it in the past just not with the security stuff. The operating system we had not too many people would have figured how to get into it anyways.... UNIX system
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Also there are cheaper ways to go about it, but the similar networks that I have done like this have been running untouched for years on end and require very little maintenance from the network side of things. They are not complex designs so when built right they will run for a VERY long time.
Really in the end just figure out what you want out of it, what it would mean to you to lose all of your AR/AP data to someone who destroys it remotely, and how easy you want it to be to keep running.
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