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

[Richie Jarvis]

paul Morriss wrote:

> Sorry I mean't remote client machines, will the VPN tunnel need to be 
> on a dedicated machine ?
>
> Paul
>
> Richie Jarvis wrote:
>
>> paul Morriss wrote:
>>
>>> What I am looking for is a way to seamlessly integrate machines on 
>>> remote networks onto the network - For Windows XP Pro the domain 
>>> will appear in the drop down list on logon and in Linux (which will 
>>> be the majority of the clients) will be part of the domain.
>>>
>>> The reasoning behind this is that I have a number of users who have 
>>> only very basic PC skills and I want to make there life as simple as 
>>> possible.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>> Did I catch that correctly? remote networks?  Well, in that case, the 
>> remote machines should
>> correctly authenticate across the tunnel, assuming the tunnel is 
>> already up - i.e. its on a dedicated machine.
>>
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Only if you want people to be able to login to the domain when they 
login to the machine.  The problem is that you need any VPN up before 
you start the login process.