Windows 2003 AD over WAN

[flyingeagle855]

Here is my situation.
I have a non profit client that I am doing some IT work for. They have two locations. We will call it Main Office and Remote Office. They only can afford DSL connections at this time for internet.

I have a domain controller at the Main Office setup and running. They now whant to add one at the Remote Office. What is the best way for me to setup so that I can extent the existing domain to the new location?

I have tried looking at the Remote Routing in 2003 and can not seem to get this configured right. I basicly want to setup the second server as a nother domain controller in a new site. So that the guy in the main office can administer the hole domain from one location. Then later we want to setup Exchanger servers at both locations and inter office communications between both sites.

Any assistance, recomendations would be very helpful. Keep in mind we do not have a lot of money to spend.

 

[kmcferrin]

It shouldn't be too hard, but you're going to need some form of connectivity between the two sites. If you only have DSL internet connections to work with, then you're going to need to set up a site-to-site VPN. There are a number of different options for this, but for small sites I've found that most SOHO hardware firewalls include IPSec functionality.

What are you using for the firewalls at both offices?

 

[supportahm1980]

i would get 2 cheap sonicwall devices and setup a vpn link. Is the DSL line a static ip? when they have more money you can get frame relay, point to point whatever you need.

 

[kmcferrin]

Oh yeah, I hadn't thought of that. If they're using consumer-grade DSL they probably don't have static IPs, which is going to make things difficult. Hopefully they are using a business class service (or at least have static IPs).

 

[flyingeagle855]

Thanks guys for the responses. I figures a SOHO would probably be the way, but just wanted to make sure.

at one site we already have a sonicwall device so sounds like I just need to get another one.

Yes we have business class DSL with static IPs, Thank god.

 

[kmcferrin]

Oh yeah, you should be set. Just pick up another Sonicwall and set up the VPN.