Remote office setup to login to corporate lan

[Mark Butler]

We have a remote office with one XP professional PC in it which we would
like to connect to our corporate lan as though it was just a long cat-5
cable. Both the remote and corporate offices have fast internet connections
with fixed IP addresses. The corporate lan is running Microsoft SBS 2003
using ISA and two nic cards. If possible we would like to have the remote
pc log into the network and have the same rights as if the pc was local and
plugged into the local switch.

I have looked into the Cisco/Linksys VPN routers and was wondering if this
is the way to do the connection?

Is there any HOW-TO docs to accomplish this connection?

TIA
Mark

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

We have a remote office with one XP professional PC in it which we
would like to connect to our corporate lan as though it was just a
long cat-5 cable. Both the remote and corporate offices have fast
internet connections with fixed IP addresses. The corporate lan is
running Microsoft SBS 2003 using ISA and two nic cards. If possible
we would like to have the remote pc log into the network and have the
same rights as if the pc was local and plugged into the local switch.

I have looked into the Cisco/Linksys VPN routers and was wondering if
this is the way to do the connection?

Is there any HOW-TO docs to accomplish this connection?

TIA
Mark

VPN would be your best option, but you should post in m.p.windows.server.sbs
for help setting it up on the server side (I'm sure they'll also help you
with the client config).