Live Office outside my LAN

Post Author: amr_foci
CA Forum: Xcelsius and Live Office
could i use the live office connecter outside my LAN?
and if yes,, wat configuration sould be done to be able to connect to my reports over the WWW from the live office
thank you

In a nutshell, you can't unless your friend has a VPN server running at his house, or you can use a point to point tunnel like Pertino.
Otherwise, use Teamviewer.

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