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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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EXAM TIP Windows is also capable of running specific applications

hosted on another machine. Think of it as Remote Desktop without the

desktop—a single application run on one machine (a server) and appearing

on another desktop (a client). You can set up your connection using the

RemoteApp and Desktop Connections applet in Control Panel.

Virtual Private Networks

Remote connections have been around for a long time, long before the

Internet existed. The biggest drawback about remote connections was the cost

to connect. If you were on one side of the continent and had to connect to

your LAN on the other side of the continent, the only connection option was

a telephone. Or, if you needed to connect two LANs across the continent, you

ended up paying outrageous monthly charges for a private connection. The

introduction of the Internet gave people wishing to connect to their home

networks a very cheap connection option, but with one problem: the whole

Internet is open to the public. People wanted to stop using dial-up and

expensive private connections and use the Internet instead, but they wanted to

do it securely.

Those clever network engineers worked long and hard and came up with

several solutions to this problem. Standards have been created that use

encrypted tunnels between a computer (or a remote network) to create a

private network through the Internet (see Figure 21-41), resulting in what is

called a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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