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

[Richie Jarvis]

paul Morriss wrote:
> Richie
>   Would the remote machine be part of the domain?  The firewall that we 
> will be going through is Smoothwall Express 2.. Should I expeact any 
> issues ?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Paul

Reminder to me: read the f***ing email first!

No - it wouldn't join the domain, however, I am sure you could get it 
to, as Windows allows you to connect a network connection prior to 
attempting to login.  Although, this shouldn't be necessary, as Windows 
caches domain logins for a time on the remote machine (I think the 
default is to allow 10 logins,) and once they have logged in, they can 
connect the VPN that way.

When my external users connect from a machine that isn't part of the 
domain (like my home machine for example) the first time they connect to 
the network, they are asked their windows username/password combination. 
  Windows can then be told to save this for future connections.

Oh, and just in case anyone is annoyed for having a windows discussion 
on ere - my PDC is linux, my VPN server is linux, and some of my users 
are successfully using the same OpenVPN configs on linux.

Cheers,

Richie