Another additional DC question

Good Morning -

I wanted to kind of bounce a concern off anyone who may be able to help. My
company has acquired an additional building and is looking to put some
employees over at this new building for space reasons. Hes the situation:

Site A = Main site where all servers are held now
Site B = Branch site where clients use MS VPN client to remote to Site A

Both Sites have a T1 for internet and a Point to Point T1 to connect the
buildings together for our new phone system. Since we have the Point to Point
in place with Layer 3 switches on each end, I figured rather than having
Clients use VPN, why not have them log on to the domain that Site A hosts. My
question is this, what is the advantage of having a DC/global catalog Server
at the branch office? As long as my users are administrators on their local
machines, they are able to log on to the domain profile even if a DC is not
accessible (I know this cause I bring my laptop home all the time and never
have problems) Now if the Point to Point goes down thay won't be able to
access network resources at site A from Site B, but same is true even I have
a DC at Site B.....So is there something I may not be thinking of? Is it safe
to say that i can have the clients come over the Point to Point to site A
from site B to logon to the domain?
.

Relevant Pages

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    ... VPN client has connectivity but cannot browse internal Lan, RRAS server ... >> my clients are all set up as domain members. ...
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  • Re: VPN connects fine --- except knocks local users off Help!!M$
    ... Although the defined network of the static account was the LAN I guess it ... > the Local workstations cannot login to the domain It cannot be found> The server cannot ping the local workstations> ... > It's like the whole network gets dedicated to the vpn clients. ... > The shares do not work to the local users> as soon as the vpn client logs off/disconnects the Local network is back> working perfectly fine ...
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  • Re: VPN connects fine --- except knocks local users off Help!!M$
    ... It's like the whole network gets dedicated to the vpn clients. ... as soon as the vpn client logs off/disconnects the Local network is back ... >>> What about looking at this problem from the direction of the anomalous> behaviour i.e. the server LAN clients? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: Two different vpn clients on XP possible?
    ... fact that both clients want to bind to the port on boot. ... So is there anyway to make a vpn client bind to the port only when required? ... Two different vpn clients on XP possible? ...
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    ... For XP clients, using the Connection Manager package created by the Remote ... Access Wizard will pass the domain to the VPN client and they should be able ...
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