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Networking two remote LANs

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What is the best most secure way of networking two remote LANs so that it is as if they are in the same building but are actually physically separate by a couple of miles. I was thinking some kind of secure VPN. Is this the best option or are there better ones? Also what types of issues could arrise by doing this.

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J

Jay_Jay70

Hi levyuk,

deffinitely VPN links but it depends which route you want to take

hardware VPN's using productt from CISCO etc, or a built in VPN using RRAS in windows.

depends how much you want to spend heres a link for RRAS. If you want answers on hardware VPN's etc, try and get Robwills attention

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/activedirectory/stepbystep/vpnconn.mspx

Cheers!

levyuk

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Hoping to use as little hardware as possible to keep costs down. I'm thinking of having one router on the new remote LAN which somehow connects to the existing LAN. Then the machines on the remote LAN could somehow connect to the first LAN where they can use the PDC there so login to stuff. Does this all sounds viable?

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levyuk

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Ah excellent, I was thinking about having a domain at the other end just incase there was a problem with the connection somewhere. Like maybe some kind of attack going on at the first site then the second site could just switch to their domain controller.

Thanks for your ideas and input.

J

Jay_Jay70

thats a pleasure - remember with AD you can have multiple domain controllers in one a single domain - so if you have a DC at both ends they will replicate the same set of users and groups and security etc, just something to think about, much esaier than administering multiple domains