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soda

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Hello everyone,
I was wondering...i have a home domain with two clients that I share my resources and files. I would like my family that live in another 500 miles away to hookup to my domain so we can all share files..ect..
If I setup my a vpn connection through my domain controller which is using server2008 ...would they beable to join the domain. If anyone can help or guide how I could do this...I would really appreciate it.
thank you
 
Yes, you would be able to do that. There is a lot involved in it though, you'd need to setup VPN services on your server and then configure client pc's to connect to it. The easiest (although not very secure) way to do this would be to setup a PPTP VPN. Which effectively acts as a dial in type of thing. You can have it configured in such a way that when connected all traffic from a client pc is routed through your PPTP VPN server. What kind of experience do you have so I know how I should go about explaining this stuff?
 
thank you for repling...I'm not an expert but i do have an understanding of networking, I would probably understand when you explain it to me
 
I guess you could check out this http://filezilla-project.org/ it's fairly easy to set up, you host the server and they connect to it from their machine 500miles away as long as you have forwarded port 21 (FTP port) to your computer. You can set up users so only people who you have set up users and passwords for can connect. I dont know if this is what your wanting but I thought it was worth posting.
:)
 
thanks photonCrasher...filezilla is good and I might use but i was looking for more for family members to join my domain..and if this is not possible, then i use the filezilla..
 
If you want to do it nicely you might want to think about setting up a point to point vpn between the routers at your house and the family member house. Then the people at the other house wouldn't even notice the vpn. This would require 2 routers at both ends who support the same type vpn. If you have some budget get 2 routers that are supported by dd-wrt. Then you can load the custom firmware and setup point to point vpn.

Otherwise you'd have to setup RRAS on the Windows Server 2008. And let the cliënts connect to it. But then the cliënts won't have a connection to the server until after they login. Which is a problem when you want to connect them to a domain.
 
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