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by blackcurrant

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Hi

I would like to know how I can remotely logon to my work domain from home.

My home machine runs Win98SE (though I would also like to know if there are any particular settings/considerations that I have to make for other staff using Win2K and WinXP), and the domain is controlled by a file server running Windows2000/SBS2000.

The server has a single network adaptor (for the LAN) and is connected, via the network, to an ADSL router with a built-in firewall (a Draytek 2600).

For example, do I need to log on to my home computer with my company username and password, before logging onto the router via the internet? Will the router automatically pass me through to the Domain Controller and will I be prompted with a domain logon box, or will the router allow me to access the company network without further authentication?

I have looked at various papers from Microsoft on this, but they assume that the server has a direct connection to the internet - no firewall etc, which is not the case here.

If anyone knows of any resources I can access, especially those written from real-world experience, I would be very grateful.

Thanks

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by jschein

You can have 5 million dollars worth of routers in your home,... You're not getting into your work system unless the Firewall is open / forwarding those port calls to the Work Routers...

Then... you may have luck getting in if you know that information.

Works like this:

You jump on the internet, you create a VPN connection through WINDOWS, CISCO, WHATEVER to dial your WORK I.P. ADDRESS with the proper group and password login. That signal goes to your work i.p. address over a specific port, which should be forwarded from the firewall to your work router, to your SERVER. If you did not configure your router at work with USERNAMES / PASSWORDS or inherit them from your servers, you will not get in.

Heck, if your the network admin, and you don't know this, you're not getting in.

by blackcurrant

Well, thanks very much. I assume then, that I have to do more configuring of the router. Do you know of a resource where this information is summarised?

by cg it

SBS 2000 with ISA server [and SBS 2000 comes with ISA server as part of SBS unlike the Standard SBS 2003]requires 2 NICs to operate properly. Further, RRAS is required for remote access via VPN and/or dialup as well as your domain account needs to have permission to connect remotely. To complicate it even more, ISA server itself is a firewall and access rules along with packet filters allowing inbound PPTP need to be configures. This is in addition to having appropriate firewall rules on the router itself allwoing PPTP passthrough and port fowarding to the server.

by blackcurrant

Hi D.R., thanks for answering. Although the server has SBS2K installed, ISA Server is not running, I have set accounts properties to allow dial-in, and have configured RRAS although when I was doing this it was following the guidelines in a Microsoft paper which assumes the server has a direct connection to the internet. Does this (RRAS) need to be configured if the logon is coming in via the router rather than directly?

by tksolway

you have to put a redirect into your router for the vpn ports to the server's internal IP. then you can setup a vpn connection from your home comp to your domain. though on windows 98 you will have to download a VPN client from microsoft.

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