Re: VPN Question plzz

hmmmm, well, that didn't go well at all. I knew we had a lot of rain last
night but didn't know the course was flooded.

Now I have no excuse not to do that paperwork that's been piling up, ce la
vie.

"PeOpLeS" <PeOpLeS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your info and good luck with your game. I hope you get a hole
> in 1
> ;)
>
> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Two main schools of thought happen on this one:
>> 1) put a TS in HQ and the remotes use it.
>> 2) put a DC at the 2nd office
>>
>> there is a third option involving running 2 SBS's, in seperate AD domains
>> but as a single internet domain.
>>
>> To me, possibly the main reason to choose one over another is shared
>> document space. If the remote office is expected to work in the same
>> document space as HQ then TS at HQ is the best method. We had offices in
>> Sydney and Armidale (several hundred km apart) and implemented a 2nd DC
>> at
>> Armidale, Sydney users worked mainly on documents in \\SydSBS\company and
>> Armidale mostly in \\ArmDC\company.
>>
>> In any case you probably want a permanent VPN between the offices. We
>> used a
>> PPTP capable router at Armidale to terminate a VPN at the Sydney SBS. An
>> alternative would be for a true IP based private network between the two.
>> If
>> you terminate the VPN at the SBS your current router _should_ be
>> sufficient.
>>
>> NOTE: using Outlook in normal Exchange mode at the remote office,
>> connecting
>> back to Exchange at HQ, can be problematic. If they are going to connect
>> to
>> the HQ Exchange I believe Outlook RPC/HTTP works better.
>>
>> All I have time for at the moment, big golf game shortly.
>>
>> "PeOpLeS" <PeOpLeS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:9B2E73D7-AEE0-4508-B8FC-2AD02FF004CE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hello Ladies and Gents,
>> >
>> > It's been a while since I have posted a question on these here boards.
>> > ?
>> >
>> > I would like to pick you brains on a VPN access query.
>> >
>> > I look after a small office that runs a 2K3 Small business server box
>> > and
>> > 8
>> > XP workstations. The business is about to open another small office
>> > and 2
>> > of
>> > the existing users are moving there. They will be leaving there PC's
>> > behind
>> > and getting 2 new ones.
>> >
>> > What is the best way to enable the 2 users in the new office to get
>> > access
>> > to all network resource back on the old office.??
>> >
>> > I was considering using remote desktop on to their old PC's. But there
>> > must
>> > be something better.??
>> >
>> > Is Cisco's VPN client the way to do it?, Does it matter that they are
>> > using
>> > a Non-Cisco router/firewall in the old office? In fact it is a D-link
>> > DSL
>> > -G604T.
>> >
>> > Any help, assistance and guidance is very much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Yours EN4
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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