Re: Joining a domain remoted via VPN

Jeff,

I haven't had any problems joining a XP Pro box to a NT4 domain when I am
VPN into the network where the domain is.

I wouldn't think that the domain flavor would matter, I have always thought
being VPN is as good as being wired into the network.

YMMV, test first, all the usual disclaimers.

Another Jeff
"sailorfej" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1193602510.056418.199940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a interesting question, regarding joing new workstations to a
Windows 2003 domain.

I am setting up a new workstation for a client's network, I doing this
at my offices, the network the workstation will eventually live on is
at a different location. In order to complete the setup, I need to
join the workstation to the Active Directory domain at the client
site.

In the past I have always just got as far as I could at my office,
then spent a couple of hours finishing the setup at the client site
after joining the domain locally .

It would be a lot easier if I could join the computer to the domain
remotely and compete the setup here, and then just take the
workstation to the client, plug it in and go.

I do have a pptp vpn server setup at the client site, but it is not
running on a Windows server, and is using local authentication.

What I want to know is, has anyone ever tried joining a Windows XP
workstation to a domain remotely via its own pptp vpn client, and what
if any gotchas they ran into?

Thanks,
Jeff



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