Best way to implement 2 remote branch offices ?
- From: Robbie Booth <robbiekb@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:22:37 -0800
Hi all,
We're a small company that is growing fast but as of now we only have 10
employees spread between the main office and a satellite office. The
particular challenge I face is that the remote office is where a lot of the
media production happens, the folks there are mostly on Macs and setting up
a VPN on each machine is a total pain.
I just found out that we're opening a second branch office so ideally what
I'd like to do is to have a server in both of the remote offices which
handles the VPN connections "transparently" as a bridge to users on the
network so that it appears as if they're all on the same LAN.
I appreciate that I can only have one domain controller on my network and
for the number of users that we have, Small Business Server was just the
right choice. Now however I'm wondering what the best way to tightly
integrate those offices is.
The kinds of services that I need to run are mirrored back up between all
three locations and integrated digital asset management & file sharing. We
have to move some large files back and forwards.
So Can I set up a windows server 2003 in my remote locations, configure it
to connect to the Small business server at the main office via VPN and then
by setting it up as the gateway, have all the clients in the remote offices
connect through it ?
Sorry if that isn't exactly the clearest. My challenge is to provide "idiot
proof" connectivity to the file servers here at home office to those folks
running on macs in the remote locations.
.
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