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Domain member laptop connected via VPN
I have a user who has a laptop that is joined to the companies internal windows server 2012 r2 domain.
He has network drives mapped via a login script. These work fine internally but when connected via VPN (using the Draytek Smart VPN client) the drives do not work. I know that this is casued by the DNS servers being unable to resolve to the fileserver name on the company network.
The user is currently using the cached domain account to log into the laptop whilst off the company network.
We are curently using the Draytek router as a VPN server.
Can someone tell me the best way to make the user experience when connected via VPN as smooth as possible for the end user.
He has network drives mapped via a login script. These work fine internally but when connected via VPN (using the Draytek Smart VPN client) the drives do not work. I know that this is casued by the DNS servers being unable to resolve to the fileserver name on the company network.
The user is currently using the cached domain account to log into the laptop whilst off the company network.
We are curently using the Draytek router as a VPN server.
Can someone tell me the best way to make the user experience when connected via VPN as smooth as possible for the end user.
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For one or two users, just make the entries needed in the Local HOSTS file. I do this on my own machine for multiple clients and it works very well.
A couple of options:
Rather than using cached credentials login to the Domain which will allow the script to run. See the following link, though I doubt this is possible with the Draytek client.
https://blog.lan-tech.ca/tag/logon/
Alternatively copy the script to the laptop and save somewhere such as the desktop and manually click on it to run. You can avoid any DNS issues by changing DNS names to IPs or set the VPN connection to ONLY use the DC as your DNS server, i.e. no alternates like router or ISP.
Rather than using cached credentials login to the Domain which will allow the script to run. See the following link, though I doubt this is possible with the Draytek client.
https://blog.lan-tech.ca/tag/logon/
Alternatively copy the script to the laptop and save somewhere such as the desktop and manually click on it to run. You can avoid any DNS issues by changing DNS names to IPs or set the VPN connection to ONLY use the DC as your DNS server, i.e. no alternates like router or ISP.
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Will the Draytek client allow you to connect the VPN before you log in? If not you have to use cached credentials. Windows, Cisco and some other VPN clients allow you to do this.
If you do want to use the Hosts file, the following link outlines adding entries to hosts and lmhosts files for DNS and NetBIOS access for server and domain names.
https://blog.lan-tech.ca/tag/hosts/
If you do want to use the Hosts file, the following link outlines adding entries to hosts and lmhosts files for DNS and NetBIOS access for server and domain names.
https://blog.lan-tech.ca/tag/hosts/
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