A school district currently running Windows NT and Novell wants to offer remote access to a GED-prep program. Ballpark-wise, is it better to offer this as a dial-up straight into the server that runs the GED prep software, or to have the user come in through the school's website and then be passed off to the server running the GED prepware? Dial-up would require the user to register and the system to have some kind of dial-back or verification security, and would limit the number of users. But there isn't a whole lot of knowledge to support something coming in through the website. Before we get too far into this, can anyone give me some general thoughts?? Appreciate any help.

I think that in order to access the program from the web site the software would have to be written for it to work that way where as a dial up would work as though they were at that machine an would not require any special interface. You will also have control on dial up times and the security settings. You can have up to 255 concurrent dial up connections so that should'nt be a problem.

What was said above was technically correct, but at the end of the day, schools have an NT box with 255 modems hanging off the back of it? Are you running a VPN capable firewall on your internet connection? If so, this is probably the second easiest way after allowing dialup connections to your server. Also in this manner you can accept more connections via your firewall than are possible (bandwidth depending, of course) with a modem or two on your server. Good luck!