Considering purchase have a couple of questions

[cpopham]

I have a DSL modem at home with a router and hardware firewall. My wife and I both have laptops. I want us to be able to upload and download files to our computer "server" on our home network over the internet. Would Wingate acoomplish this?

Next question, I setup servers for clients and have created a program that generates a text file if there is an error with needed information. I would like this file to also be put on my computer at home in a specific folder. I will have a folder monitor on this folder that will notify me when a file has been posted there. Can Wingate do this? Would I need a license for each server?

Thanks, Chester

[Pascal]

There are two ways to do this. The first, and probably easiest, is to run a FTP server on your home network. Then you can FTP in/out of that box with appropriate security setup.

The alternative is to link your laptops into the network remotely and securely through the WinGate VPN. That is effectively like a network cable across the internet and makes it possible to easily transfer files - essentially anything you can do from the local network you can do across the VPN.

Monitoring for the file - not possible, unfortunately.

[cpopham]

So can you map shared folders and files over the VPN to a drive letter like you would a normal network? I have a folder watcher program writtern that will monitor a folder.

[genie]

Yes, you can - VPN basically creates a tunnel in a way that your computer starts seeing the remote network as part of its own - kind of.