Hi folks.
My company has two new remote sites and a head office. The new remote sites have recently had the networks connected to the head office’s network via VPN setup by the telecoms provider. They have provisioned private DSL links in each remote office that connect into the same provider of the head office’s 6MB fibre link. They have set it up with Cisco 878 ADSL routers at the remote ends and a Cisco 871 Ethernet router at the head ofice all connected via IPSEC VPN.
So, my issue and question is that I have a Windows 2003 server (domain controller) at the head office and XP pro domain workstations at the remote offices. These workstations used to be connected to the domain at the head office LAN but since they were relocated to the remote office LAN they can no longer see the server automatically. I can ping the server across the links, manually set things like DNS work fine, and everything seems to be connected correcty, but I don’t know how to make the workstations automatically ‘see’ the server for authentication and fileserver shares etc. Is there a setting I need to change for them to see the server? … or is the VPN blocking some of the protocols necessary for the windows domain to work normally?
Sorry for the long-winded explanation, it’s just that I barely understand the problem myself. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Aaron in Australia.