allowing 2 domain to communicate between two networks?

[telecotek1]

Not sure if im wording this correctly. But here's the scenario. this may be more of networking question.

We have one domain that most of the users are on (network A) on a subnet 192.168.1.x. This network has exchange, file, custom app and web servers.

The second network totally different domain (Network B) 192.168.2.x has an sbs 08 server that has approximately 5 users. users on this domain (network b) need to be able to access resources on network A.

My original thought was to vlan out one of the ports on the router of network b to the subnet of network A and create a static route between the .2 and .1 networks. Then create a route on the network A router to allow traffic from the .2 (network B) subnet.

Does this make sense? Both domain have there own DHCP servers would I have to make an adjustment to DHCP? Any thing that I'm not thinking about or will this work? Or a suggestion to make this easier.

-j

 

[ShackDaddy]

If you were willing to give the 5-workstation network static IPs and turn off DHCP on that server, you could put both servers in a single subnet and avoid any VLAN complexity altogether. That would probably be what I'd do.

Remember that you can't create trusts between any SBS domains, so every time a user in one domain maps a resource in the other, creds will have to be provided. If you are using scripts to map drives, it makes that easier.

Dave Shackelford MVP
ThirdTier.net
TrainSignal.com