Remote Logon

[kwicks]

Hello All,

Here is the situation. I have our network here that is behind a VPN/Firewall
Appliance. That VPN acts as a DHCP gateway and assigns IP addresses to all
on the network. I have a new remote user that has his own machine but he too
is behind a VPN that assigns an IP address to his machine.

We have established a VPN tunnel from his VPN to ours but my question is:
How do I get him to be able to log into the network as if he were directly
on it. He has good login credentials (user/pass) and his machine had
actually been joined to this domain before he left.

I imagine the problem is that his internal (private) IP is different than
the one on our network so it is not letting him log in to the domain and
have access to the domain resources.

Is there a way to have the Windows 2000 server alllow that machine or IP to
log into the domain? Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you in
advance.

KW

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

You'll have to check the documentation for the router devices - each router
needs to be configured with a static route to the internal network of the
other.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[kwicks]

Thanks Doug,

The tunnel itself is uo and running fine. I can ping his machine by name and
IP but he is not able to log into the domain and use it's resources. Do you
mean that there is somewhere in his VPN/Router interface that would allow
him to utilize our private IP range??

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

OK, routing is fine from your end, but can the remote user ping your
internal network? If not, he may need a static route configured on his
router. If both networks can ping eachother, then inability to log onto the
domain is probably a DNS issue. The remote computer must be able to ping
your internal DNS server and it must be configured to use it for primary
DNS.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[kwicks]

Doug,

Thanks so much for your efforts. I actually found out what the problem was.
Somewhere between the machine leaving here and him setting up at his new
location, the Computer Browser service was stopped.

How I will never know but all better now, thanks again!!

KW