Re: Remote site loses access to member server when WAN goes down
From: Frank McCallister (anonymous)
Date: 08/13/04
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:38:06 -0500
Hi David
"I can't make the remote member server a backup domain controller in an SBS
environment, right?" Wrong you can have a BDC in a SBS network.
Frank McCallister
COMPUMAC
"David Schrag" <david-no-spam@schrag.net> wrote in message
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>I have a main office running SBS03 and a remote office with a Windows 2003
> member server. They are connected with a VPN between two hardware
> firewalls.
> Yesterday the VPN went down because of a phone line failure and everyone
> in
> the remote office lost access to the local member server. When they tried
> to
> access a share on the server, there was a long delay followed by a
> password
> prompt. If they put in their own password, they got a message to the
> effect
> of "I tried that one already and there's no domain controller to validate
> your password; try again." It also failed if they tried to put in a
> different user's password. As soon as the VPN was restored, everything
> started working fine again.
>
> Fortunately this is the first time the VPN has failed in the few months
> since this whole thing was set up, but surely it will happen again
> someday.
> I did not realize that cutting off access to the domain controller would
> mess up access to the member server like this. I guess I just assumed that
> since users could still log into their computers using cached credentials
> when connection to the domain controller was lost, that they'd still have
> access to the member server as well.
>
> So what do I do to prepare for the next VPN outage? I can't make the
> remote
> member server a backup domain controller in an SBS environment, right? Is
> there anything else I can do to make that server grant access to the
> remote
> office's users?
>
> Here's something I tried. If I logged into a remote office computer as the
> local administrator, I was able to gain access to the member server's
> shares
> by drilling through My Network Places, Entire Network, etc. -- but only if
> I
> supplied the domain administrator's user name and password when prompted.
> Regular users were denied access. I was thinking that I could create a
> local
> user account on each PC and tell them to log in locally if the VPN failed.
> But obviously I don't want them all logging in as the domain admin when
> they
> want access to their files.
>
> Any thoughts? I'd hate to go back to the client and say "guess what ...
> looks like SBS was the wrong product for you!"
>
>
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