Re: TCP/IP Dial-In to AS/400

You can setup a PC running NT that is connected to the internet (dialup,
ISDN, etc) and then get your ISP to assign this PC a static IP address.
Your AS400 can also be on this same LAN.  Using Win95 or NT, users may dial
into their ISP to gain an internet connection and then start a "dialup
networking virtual private network (VPN) connection to that PC on your LAN.
 At this point they can start any TN5250 client like the Synapse WinAPPC
(tn5250 for display and lpd for printing) and get a session on the AS400.  

For exact specification and click by click instructions you can goto
www.synapse.com and check out the article at support:  "VPN and PPTP are
relatively new technologies for Microsoft Windows. This article describes
how to use them to access your AS/400 over the Internet with Synapse WinAPPC."

At 10:44 PM 3/5/98, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>what do you think about allowing customers to dial in to our AS/400 using a 
>TCP/IP connection via an ISDN Router or a PC in our Ethernet LAN? We do not 
>have an IPCS which could be used as a firewall solution but we want to have 
>our PCs protected so nobody can access them via the net.




Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com

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