Browsing Between Sites

[EnemyAce]

Wonder if someone may be able to help me out with this one.

I've created a redundant site across town from our head Office. I did this by building a DC using DCPROMO at the head office, then physically transporting the machine to the secondary site. I created a demand dial VPN between sites, then used AD Sites & Services to create the secondary site, the site link and the proper subnet. I've since added a few Servers to the secondary site.

Active Directory seems to be replicating fine. What I would like to be able to do is browse the full list of Servers from both sites from any machine at either site. Right now, I can only browse the local machines for each site. I can ping the remote machines, but ONLY from the domain controllers for each site.

Have I set this up incorrectly? My goal was to make the single domain transparent, so that no matter what location you were at, you'd be able to browse and access shared folders from all Servers at either location.

Dave

 

[aco636]

Hi there
Are the machines on different subnets? If so you wont automatically see these without DNS/WINS set up.

Can you specify a server IP and browse this way, e.g. \\192.168.1.x\share

Also another hany tool is VNC for remote machines. Helps no end when you are not on site

http://www.realvnc.com

Regards ACO

 

[EnemyAce]

Yes I've configure a DNS server at the secondary site as a secondary to one in my main site.

How should this be configured, what about WINS?

 

[search66]

Both are DNS's?

Maybe try having only one running DNS.