VPN or IPSEC?

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Hello everyone,

The vast majority of my company's users work out in the field and rarely, if
ever, come in to a branch office. Now there are times when these users need
to access a file server or thier laptop needs to sync with Active Directory.
I was thinking that I would let them connect to the corporate network via a
VPN, but it turns out there is not way to setup Windows XP to demand-dial a
VPN or have a permanent VPN connection to the corporate network, and our
users get confused and frustrated about having to manually connect the VPN.

My question here is, should I continue with the VPN strategy, or should I
switch gears and make the domain controllers visible on the Internet and use
IPSEC to retstrict access to only domain computers? Or is there a third way
that I don't even know about?

I'd apprecate any advice,
Wells


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