Re: Remote logon to SBS domain?
- From: "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 09:33:05 +1000
note also that though Virtual Server is not supported for production use
under XP it does actually work and I've never had issue with it used in this
manner. The advantage here is that the same virtual environment is used in
the 'lab' vs 'home' situation. There's little difference between VS and VPC,
but they do handle things differently.
"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Erik,
Honestly, if all you want is to play with SBS to learn how to configure
it, I wouldn't use your home computer as a remote workstation attached to
the Lab server's SBS domain. It can be done, but there are better ways to
test SBS.
One way is to use Microsoft's free VPC 2004 that comes in your Action Pack
kit. As long as your home computer has sufficient hard drive space (maybe
20-40 GB free space) and RAM (1-2 GB will work), you can install SBS 2003
and a WinXP Pro workstation into a virtual environment on your home
computer. These will run in separate windows under your current WinXP OS
on your home computer. You can attach the virtual WinXP Pro workstation
to the virtual SBS 2003 domain and do almost all the other things you can
do in a real network environment. After the initial installs, if you mess
up something, you can simply quit the virtual window, reboot the virtual
window and your original install reappears untouched. Or, you can save
your changes so that the next time you start your virtual network, you
start from this "saved" point. You can even save your virtual
environments at various stages so you have multiple starting points for
"playing".
If you set up VPC 2004 on your Lab server, you can even copy the virtual
drives from your home computer to the Lab computer, and visa-versa, so
your Lab and home computers can "stay in sync".
Virtual Server 2005 is another product that runs under Windows 2003 (again
in your kit). VS2005 can similarly be used for virtual testing of OS's.
Microsoft VPC 2004
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
Microsoft Action Pack Subscription: Standard Contents
https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40009848
SBS 2003 (learning) References
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs/msg/8225bbd13d4bae60?hl=en&;
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Erik Droszcz" <edroszczNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have just started to play aroud with SBS 2003. At work we bought the
Action Pack and I installed a lab server using one of it's licenses.
I have the server up and running at work. But how can I play with it
using my computer at home running Windows XP Professional? Is it possible
to join the computer to the domain logon using my computer at home just
the way I could if I had my computer at the same LAN as the server at
work?
I guess I need some kind of VPN connection to do this. I dont have access
to a firewall that can handle a VPN connection, so I try to find a way to
do this using a software VPN client. Problem is, to connect to the VPN
server, I first need to logon to my computer at home and set up the VPN
client. But how can I join the computer in the domain and when it reboots
simply login to the AD domain? It seams like I am stuck in a catch 22. To
logon to the domain I need a VPN, but to get a VPN connection I first
have to logon to the computer.
Is there any way to fix this? Maby some VPN client that loads as a
Windows service and establish a VPN connection before the login prompt
appears?
Any help would be appreciated. Really looking forward to play around with
SBS :)
Best regards
Erik Droszcz
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