I'm not doing any software installation or running scripts at those sites, so I don't know if it will make a difference, but I'll try and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion.
Ralph Smith ________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC in domain across stable VPN tunnel? Enable slow link GPO processing? -sc From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC in domain across stable VPN tunnel? I have 5 sites without domain controllers connected to our main site by VPN (Cisco PIX at each end). They have between 2 and 8 PCs at each site, with 2meg down and 384K up business class cable at each remote site, and 1.5/1.5 SHDSL at the main site (which is dedicated to VPNs with these 5 and sites and 3 larger sites that do have local DCs). For DNS at the serverless sites, the first entry is a DNS server at the main site, and the second entry is one of the OpenDNS servers. Works fine for us, the only issue is taking a long time to apply computer policies when booting up - about 5 minutes. I just tell them to turn on the computer and go get coffee or do something else for a few minutes. Ralph Smith From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC in domain across stable VPN tunnel? Hey folks: I have about 15 sites that have 2- 5 users/PCs that have "business class" broadband (a bit faster than typical home access). Soon I plan to provide each site a soho firewall and will have a VPN tunnel from each site to here at HQ. I'd love to be able to add these PCs to our domain so I could enforce our various GPOs at these locations. Has anyone done this? I already have several tunnels like this at other locations but haven't added the PCs to the domain. I'm not sure about the cross-tunnel authentication, but if it's not too slow (no mapped drives or logon scripts), I'd do it. It would be nice to have these users log into the domain as well. Comments, suggestions, words of wisdom? Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. * * * This E-mail, along with any attachments, is considered confidential and may well be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you for your cooperation. * * * To ensure compliance with Treasury Department regulations, we inform you that, unless otherwise indicated in writing, any U.S. Federal tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (1) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or applicable state and local provisions or (2) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any tax-related matters addressed herein. Disclaimer Version RS.US.1.01.03 pdc1 Confidentiality Notice: ****************** This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. Confidentiality Notice: ---------------------------------- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
