[Sussex] Remote (Samba 3.0.x) Domain Accesss

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Tue Jan 11 01:53:32 UTC 2005


Paul

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:44:48PM +0000, paul Morriss wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance now - when you say you need the VPN up before you 
> start the login procedure, are you talking about on the client side?  As 
> in a dedicated VPN box or are you talking about server side.

Both.  The VPN is a network link that encrypts packets and sends them over
a network.  In order for the VPN to be up both ends have to have gone through
their handshaking to establish the link.  It's isn't so much client/server
as peer to peer.

Steve




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