# Restricting Technicians by IP Address

**URL:** <https://community.simple-help.com/t/restricting-technicians-by-ip-address/531>\
**Category:** Server Administration\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/restricting-technicians-by-ip-address/531 "2020-07-22T10:51:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dalacor](https://community.simple-help.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@Dalacor](https://community.simple-help.com/u/Dalacor)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://community.simple-help.com/t/restricting-technicians-by-ip-address/531/1 "2020-07-22T10:51:22Z")

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I want to implement this without locking myself out of the Server if I make a mistake.

Does this work on public Internet IP Addresses or your actual Lan IP address. My server hosting simple help is in a datacentre not on my Lan. Therefore I want to put in the public IP address of our Internet as the allowed IP Address for the office not my lan ip address range.

Would it be a better idea to setup an openvpn lan range for when connecting to Simple help from outside the office instead of having to set an ip address for every client.

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