Connecting Two 2003 win servers remotely

You need to set up a VPN between the two offices with your routers over your internet connections. This will give you a secure WAN for the servers to "talk" in.

You may need to change the IP setting to point to the correct router at each location.

I assume office a and b are in complete different locations and not the same biulding because you say remote.

You said, see each other while on different offices. What do you mean by "see". For full healthy domain you need to have many communication ports opened between the two servers, not only ping (if that is what you mean by see each other)

>> I can connect them with a VPN but they will not exchange files are update the users that are added on either through AD....

You need to create a secure tunnel instead of dial-in VPN. A secure tunnel in firewall of both locations will allow you transfer data in bi-directions.

If you have different ADs and domains, you also need to grant domain trust between them in AD.

K

They are part of the same domain and have the same AD besides adding an account here and there.  I figured out the problem, but then it creates another problem.  I set the DNS to server B to match that of server A on the LAN card and everything goes as planned.  The only problem now is all the workstations behind server B lose their internet connection when the VPN is up.  

If you set up a second DNS at server B, you may want to change your prefer DNS on all computers in location B pointing to that DNS.

K

You also need to create Global Catalog on the second DNS server (B).

K

I set the primary DNS to what the computers behind server B use and set the secondary DNS to what server A is.  The connection with the VPN is still good that way but kills the internet to the computers on that side still.  Could that have something to do with the Global Catalog you side to turn on.  I have not tried it yet because I would kill the other office right now I will have to wait till this evening to try when the office closes.  Just wondering if the Global Cat would fix it when turn on.

Global Catalog is a must in your secondary location in order to authenticate between the two offices with the same domain user info. Let's do that and keep me updated.

K

It is a site to site VPN set up.

Site A

Netopia 3342 modem/router
connected to WIN 2003 Server WAN port
LAN port from WIN 2003 Server to a unmanaged switch

Site B is the same exact layout

IP scheme for site A is 192.168.1.10 - 60
IP scheme for site B is 192.168.1.61 - 100

both have the same subnet  

DNS on the LAN side of A is 192.168.1.1
                           side of B is 192.168.1.2 and the alternate is 192.168.1.1

Does this help any

Yes, it does. At least we are on the same page. I believe you just didn't set up your VPN tunnel properly. Here is the guide: http://www.netopia.com/support/hardware/manuals/3342-52_SWUserGuideV733.pdf
Make sure you read the instruction starting on the bottom of page 83

Here is what you want to try in your B location. When you cannot browse Internet with the DNS name, can you try to browse google ip: 64.233.169.104?

If you can browse or ping google ip, your gateway is OK. If not, you may have issue with GW. (some router disable ping option so you may not ping but you can browse)

K

Sorry that was the wrong model its a 3347-02-1006.  I will check the manual on that one though.