Topic: domain logon over VPN

[Greg Zartman]

Can anyone share there experience (i.e., success) at logging into an SME domain over a VPN connection?

Thank you

Greg Zartman

[Karl]

Hi Greg,

Yes and no.... I set up a Vpn between three locations, one being main office and the others two being remote offices. The difference was that for the VPN tunnel I used Smoothwall as I had an aversion to placing SME or any domain server, directly onto the internet. What I did was to modify the "smb.conf" config to allow cutom settings. Basically what I had was as follows...... The main server was set to allow domain logons, with the other two not, the main server was set as the Wins server with all locations set to use this IP via dhcp at each location. At each remote sites, smb.conf was set to 'announce wins' to the main office, and the main ofice was set to 'query wins' from the remote offices. Each remote office was set to its own 'workgroup' with all servers having the remote subnets entered into SME as a 'trusted hosts', via the panel. I used the local servers at remote sites for printing and file storage only, totally ignoring mail or any other options. All mail was handled at the head office and collected via IMAP using the servers IP address in the Outlook config file. I found it much easier this way to do the VPN rather than let SME do it for reasons mentioned earlier. Hope this helps, kind regards,
Karl

[Gary]

I used to administer my Wndows 2000 servers via terminal Services using a VPN going through one of the boxes, home workers used to do the same and use PC Anywhere for their respective machines. I since have installed SME 5.6U4 and use its IP address in my VPN connection instead of the Windows box and it works great without any snags at all. PC Anywhere also report no problems - but it seems quicker?