AD & Cisco VPN

[jszei]

We have 2 offsite users who connect to our network using a Cisco vpn client. Their pcs are part of the domain and can access the entire network without a problem. We have one user who's pc is part of a workgroup at home and is not part of our work domain. He logs in using his work user id. When he logs into our network via Cisco's VPN client he can only access some servers if we add his login locally to the server. This is not 100%. How can we get him to have access to all the shares without making the workstation part of the domain? He would also like to create his own domain at home. Would we have similar problems then?

Thanks,
John

 

[BarneyVon]

Your client will be able to VPN into your network, but to see shares, printers, etc., he will need to have remote access software or terminal services to connect to a network machine. Terminal services will connect via IP address. You might also try VNC or Landesk if avalible.
I connect to my work domain via a Cisco vpn client over Cable modem behind a Linksys router from my own domain with no problem, but I have to remote the servers to perform any tasks on the work domain. Hope this helps.

 

[ecowarrior]

If your teleworker is setting up a domain, you could use trusting between them, this will authenticate both users on both domains, and keep AD in place