VPN connection to applications?

George89

hi i am currently studying CCNA but that aside, i have an idea and need to know with a VPN connection to a network with files could you install programs in the network folder i.e microsoft word, and then run microsoft word on a computer without microsoft word installed, so in other words the network folder is acting as a harddrive once VPN connection is established.
I hope you get what i mean

PurpleIT

George89 wrote: »

hi i am currently studying CCNA but that aside, i have an idea and need to know with a VPN connection to a network with files could you install programs in the network folder i.e microsoft word, and then run microsoft word on a computer without microsoft word installed, so in other words the network folder is acting as a harddrive once VPN connection is established.
I hope you get what i mean

There are a couple of issues with this...

Programs such as MS office do need to be installed on the computer, you can't just have the files sitting out there run the program by clicking on word.exe. If you were to open a VPN, map a drive, install to that mapped drive and then run the application; yes, theoretically it would work FOR THAT ONE COMPUTER. There would be issues with latency, etc and some programs will detect that it is a network drive and not allow the installation to happen, but yeah, technically, it could happen.

If you had a small program that didn't need to be installed you would still have speed and latency issues that might cause a problem, but you would have a much higher success rate.

phoeneous

Something similar can be done with Terminal Services RemoteApp.