2nd Office Location

[dmsmitty76]

I have 2 office locations and I want to set up a server at each location under 1 domain. Right now each work station just VPNs into the server as needed. I wanted to setup a full time connection to another server and then have both servers sync GPOs, Active Directories etc.. What is the best way to due this?

Do I setup ServerA to be a VPN Server and then set ServerB to VPN into ServerA. While all computers at OfficeB connect to ServerB?

Please note that both offices are behind linksys routers.
RouterA is a WRT-54GS hardware version 2.0 while RouterB is WRT-54G hardware version 5.0 (I know) running DD-WRT since PTPP doesn't properly work under native v5.0 firmware.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[reynolwi]

I actually just figured out how to do all this and I used a hardware VPN instead of software. If you have two routers that do VPN set those up and create your tunnel between them. I created a VPN Tunnel between two Symantec Enterprise Firewall/VPN routers.

The way i set our system up is the main location subnet is 10.25.18.0 and the remote location subnet is 10.25.19.0 and the netmask of both is 255.255.255.0. Then i set the remote server up with DNS as well so that the local clients on the remote site have a local DNS server and since its AD integrated it will sync with the DNS server at the main location. And to ensure they work each servers primary DNS entry is itself and the secondary DNS entry is the other DNS server. Then i just set the clients up to their local DNS server as the primary and the other remote server as the secondary and I left the WINS server as the primary server at the home site and it seems to be working like that. In DNS added the other remote sites subnet into the reverse lookup zone.

I havent had a problem so far the way i have it setup and all the clients and servers seem to be running smoothly with no problems that i can see. Havent seen any errors in the event log either.

Wm. Reynolds
RRWDS | TxPSS

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[lanceja]

To be honest that is how I have our offices setup. The only suggestion that I would make is to make sure you have firewalls somewhere in your network.

 

[reynolwi]

Yes... ensure you have firewalls in place. The ones i use have a firewall built into the router as well.

Wm. Reynolds
RRWDS | TxPSS

http://www.rrwds.com

http://www.txpubsafety.com