Re: Question about Home PC connected to SBS via VPN....
From: Cassandra (cassandramiller_at_ureach.com)
Date: 03/10/04
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Date: 9 Mar 2004 19:31:25 -0800
Jeff,
Thank you for your insight. You save me lots of time...and
frustration!!! I didn't check the replies till just now, so sorry for
the late reply. I'm comfortable with using the VPN connection for
Outlook E-Mail, then using RWW for my other needs.
Again, thank you as always Jeff. Hopefully one day I'll be able to
throw you a tip and two your way!!!
** Hugs & Kisses **
~ CaSsIe ~
"Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP]" <jeff@cfisolutions.com> wrote in message news:<uoqzCAhAEHA.3220@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> As Les suggested, it is far easier to address this idea if you use an RDP
> session to gain control of the PC at your office, or use a TS Apps server to
> RDP into. Making the remote link is easier with RWW than creating a VPN and
> then doing RDP....the SBS RWW solves it for you automatically.
>
> Now, for the specifics of what you indicated.....
>
> If you have your home computer as not a member of your office domain, then
> you can't really use a remote logon to give you the shared resources for My
> Docs, Desktop, Apps Data, etc. The reason is that those folders are part of
> the profile that is loaded into your user session (at your home computer) at
> the time you first authenticated and logon at the local machine. That's why
> if you were part of a domain with the home computer, you could potentially
> configure it, but if you are not....you can't.
>
> For the moment, let's assume that you are using computer at home that is a
> domain member. If the DSL link is always on, you could configure the VPN as
> a Dialup Networking option, and then at the primary logon configure "Logon
> with Dialup Networking" so that your intial logon is authenticated by the
> SBS in the manner that your PC at home first builds the VPN before beginning
> the user logon itself. Once the VPN is present, you computer now
> authenticates your logon session. If you have your workstation configured as
> part of a domain Group Policy control to redirect folders, or to do roaming
> profiles, now those processes can occure because the domain is actually
> processing the logon. The only problem now is if your system is going to
> behave well with the profile information located over a low-bandwidth DSL
> link. Some things that are in AppsData are going to make the session
> sluggish. If you just redirect your MyDocs and Desktop, this isn't too
> horrible until you go to open something other than a link on the desktop.
> For instance, if you have that 2.5 Mb JPG photo of your dog sitting on the
> desktop, when you click to open it.....slowly.....it.....comes.....over
> ....the ....DSL.
>
> That's why it is better to RDP, or VPN and RDP, or RWW to take control of a
> workstation that is locally in the LAN at your office and just run a session
> that remains entirely local in that LAN.....only the RDP session screen and
> keystrokes move back over the wire.
>
> Returning to the other idea of configuring Outlook if you have a home
> computer that is a domain member, you could use the normal Outlook process,
> or better would be to configure the profile as RPC over HTTP if that's all
> you need, but either way, you can get Outlook to work remotely okay as long
> as you don't try to sync massive amounts of stuff over the wire, or cache
> things on both ends with Offline folders. Outlook 2003 is better at handling
> this than previous versions.
>
>
> "Cassandra" <cassandramiller@ureach.com> wrote in message
> news:7636d3c0.0403032154.5156ca9c@posting.google.com...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a quickie question about setting up a Home PC and remotely
> > connecting it to an SBS 2003 server via a VPN. I created and used the
> > remote connection disk on my Home PC, and now the Home PC connects to
> > the office SBS Server via an aDSL connection. I got Outlook to
> > connect with Exchange which is very kewl. But I still haven't quite
> > figured out how to have the Home PC's My Documents & My Desktop &
> > AppsData folder link to the same one's that reside on the server which
> > my User Profile plugs into. Is this at all possible???
> >
> > Or in fact, would be even better, would be to simply log in on my Home
> > PC upon start up as I would on a workstation directly connected to the
> > SBS lan, and have all my same files in the same places on my computer.
> > I tried doing this already, but it tells me after I log in, that the
> > connection to the SBS server is not available...thus I'm stuck logging
> > into my Home PC profile, and double clicking the "connect to SBS
> > Server" on my desktop to establish a VPN connection.
> >
> > Are there any instructions anywhere on how to accomplish this?
> >
> > ~ Hugs & Kisses ~
> >
> > ** CaSsIe **
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