Network authentication problem

[Alastair Williamson]

Hi there,

I'm not really sure where to post this problem - if it is not here could
someone point me to the correct newsgroup?!

We have Win2K server at our head office and everything is fine. We have some
remote sites that connect to our HO servers via a VPN but due to the connect
speed we cannot get the machines in the remote sites to authenticate to the
servers - they just hang/timeout - so we can't apply any kind of security or
policy settings to the users. Does anyone know of an admin utility that we
can install on these remote machines so that we can apply security settings
to the local users? An example would be that at HO our users can't access
control panel or user their right-mouse button.

Any suggestions or pointers would be great.

Cheers

C-Ya Aly

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If you are using a persistent VPN tunnel to the sites, make sure that the users
computers are pointed to the domain controller as their preferred dns server as shown
via Ipconfig /all. See the link below on proper dns configuration.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291382

Otherwise you will have to use Local Security Policy and Local Group Policy
[gpedit.msc] to configure policy on those computers. Note that local Group Policy
will apply to ALL users that logon to the computer. If you have a fairly large amount
of remote computers, remote domain controllers should be considered. With remote
domain controllers you can configure your remote sites in Active Directory by subnet
to control replication, and optimize logon. --- Steve