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Having a client-server session over a WAN
We are going to connect to our server over a wan via vpn appliance per the suggestion of EE experts. I am considering the Sonicwall ssl 2000 http://www.sonicwall.com/us/products/12033.html
Does anyone have experience with this that they could share. I am wondering if my client machine can have the windows user logon screen at startup so that when an employee puts their credentials in, they are logging into the server. I don't want the employee to have to log into windows, open a browser window to start a vpn connection, and have access to server resources. I want the employee to log on to the server as if they were logging on to the server and have a session as if they were logging on from a client machine at headquarters.
Does anyone have experience with this that they could share. I am wondering if my client machine can have the windows user logon screen at startup so that when an employee puts their credentials in, they are logging into the server. I don't want the employee to have to log into windows, open a browser window to start a vpn connection, and have access to server resources. I want the employee to log on to the server as if they were logging on to the server and have a session as if they were logging on from a client machine at headquarters.
SSL normally uses a browser for connecting. What you are asking for can be done with an IPSEC VPN cleint session. That requires the user to start the VPN client software to create the tunnel session then they can do whatever you allow on the corporate network.
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So would something like this be more appropriate for what I am trying to do? Cisco Systems
Asa 5505 VPN Edition with 10 SSL User License 3DES/AES
Asa 5505 VPN Edition with 10 SSL User License 3DES/AES
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Okay, so then when the user at the remote site sits down at their computer, and they have the Windows blue logon screen, they hit control-alt-delete, and enter their credentials to logon on to the domain? Or are you saying that no matter what, they need to logon to the local machine, then perform an authentication procedure of some sort, and then.... ?
Sorry. I was looking at it from the point of view of the VPN device and the protocol in use and your statment about not using a browser.
By the way there is a note about the Sonicwall ssl 2000 being only available in Japan.
By the way there is a note about the Sonicwall ssl 2000 being only available in Japan.
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Keep in mind though that you are allowing Windows Logon to happen across the Internet via RDP which is not encrypted.