Re: Creating a VPN Connection. Starting From Scratch

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From: Jeff L (newsgroups_jeff_at_availabletech.net)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:08:26 -0400

Micheal,

Netgear products among others will be a good solution. Basically I would
setup the offices to connect using VPN appliances. This makes the VPN
features transparent as the client computer which thinks it is on the local
area network.

Alternatively you can look in to the features for using VPN to authenticate
users duiring logon. I don't know if you have noticed the check box which
says dial this connection first when you start windows and ctrl+alt+del for
the log on screen. Well that check box allows you to logon on to windows
authenticating via VPN connection to the server.

Really the simplest thing is VPN appliance.

Jeff Loucks [SBS MVP]
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"Harlequin" <michael.mason@arraspeople.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all.
>
> Firstly I'll apologise for the length of this post and also the fact that
> there's probably other posts similar but I'd still really appreciate an
> individual response to what I believe is a unique issue.
>
> We have a head office running SBS 2003 and I have 3 satellite offices that
> require VPN access. Simple enough...? Well, even NetGear can't come back
> to me on this one because here's the conundrum:
>
> I need the clients (3 currently, maybe more soon as we are opening up
> "Virtual Offices") to be able to gain access to mapped drives on the
> network for database applications and the only way I can think of
> achieving this is by executing a batch file on the client's PC from the
> server.
>
> Am I going about this the wrong way...?
>
> --
> -----------------------------
> Michael Mason
> Arras People
> www.arraspeople.co.uk
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>
>

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