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I accessed www2.gblab.nwc.com/igateportal and was prompted to insert my iKey or enter a user name-password combination. After being authenticated, I was presented with a list of applications to which I had been assigned access rights. Clicking on the link launched a Java applet on my desktop that provided connectivity to the iGate.

I clicked on the VNC link, and my hosts file showed an additional entry: 127.0.0.4 vnc.gb.nwc.com.

I fired up VNC and entered the desired host as vnc.gb.nwc.com. It took just a moment to successfully connect to the internal server. IMAP connectivity worked as well, with little degradation of performance via the encrypted tunnel. An alternative configuration requires that DNS entries be added to your name server. I much preferred the automatic modification of the local hosts files, which is cleaned up after logging out. My tests with passwords and tokens was successful for both apps.

Lori MacVittie is a Network Computing technology editor working in our Green Bay, Wis., labs. Write to her at [email protected].

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