>>Furthermore, if you use a remote desktop solution like 2X from www.2x.com, which provides a better server administration interface than native remote desktop, but still works on top of Remote Desktop, you can get 2X client apps for Windows, Linux, Java inside a Web Browser, Apple, iPad, and Android. What that means is that you can offer your VFP application, unchanged in any way, to users using Windows, Linux, Java enabled Browsers, Apple Macs, iPad, Android, even smartphones.
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>Started playing with 2x.com on an Amazon EC server and can't get it to work. I'm very excited about the advertised clients - windows, mac, android, ios. Have you found any getting started guides that are more helpful than their documentation?

Brandon,

We got it working pretty fast and it was reasonably straight forward although I didn't try it on a hosted server / virtual machine but that should obviously work. I am not the hardware guy in our company so I can only give the rough ideas but it was all setup in a hour or two by our hardware techie. I can let you have his contact details if you want but he will charge some hourly rate as he is an independent contractor. That's between you and him.

The only "funny" (to me) is that we had to run the 2X server on its own IP so the ports wouldn’t conflict with ports in use such as IIS. You can use another network card, mapped IIS to different ports or multihomed the existing card (all the same end result). We then picked a non-routable IP such as 192,168.1.1. This is done under the Farm tab of the 2X Application XG Console.

Then publishing apps takes just a few clicks to point at the app to publish and setting the run parameters.

Then you need to decide whether users will access published aps via user login, user groups, or both. Then under the filtering tab of the published app you choose which users and/or groups can have access.

Then lastly, you create your user logins, add them to whatever groups you want, and note that every user that must have access must also belong to the Remote desktop group.

Finally, 2X support is very good, they got some very smart people there, are professional and responsive so they should be a good starting point for next line of support.

Then when you use the 2X client to login you will see icons for whatever your login was allowed to access.