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

[paul Morriss]

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.

Apologies if this thread has got a bit long winded

Paul


Richie Jarvis wrote:
> 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.
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