Windows 8 In Depth

Connecting to a Remote Network

You can tie your network to a network in another location so that you and the other network’s users can share files and printers as if you were all in the same room. Windows Server has many features to support this, but you can also do it with smaller networks without Windows Server. There are two straightforward ways to do this: by getting routers that have built-in Virtual Private Networking (VPN) support and by using a software service. For a hardware approach, Linksys, Asus, Trendnet, and other manufacturers sell inexpensive routers with VPN capability. The router in one office is set up as the VPN “host” or server, and the routers in other offices are set up to connect to that. This ties the separate networks ...