Guest Mark Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Here is my scenario.... We have 2 offices, Office A (the main office) and office B (a branch office). We have a secure VPN tunnel between offices which creates a WAN. Office A Has a Windows Server 2003 Standard with Active Directory. Office B has a Windows Server 2003 Standard w/out Active Directory. The server in office B is a member server in the domain (controlled by server A). All workstations in office B are members of the domain. Our WAN connection went down. While the WAN was down none of the workstations is office B can access the server in office B. They are getting a message such as "no domain controller is available to validate your logon". I'm looking for a solution which will allow the workstations in office B to still have access to the server in office B if the WAN connection should go down again in the future. Thanks in advance.
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Re: server communications Hello mark, You need a DC/DNS/DHCP and Global catalog server in the location to get full redundancy if the main server or connection is down. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Here is my scenario.... We have 2 offices, Office A (the main > office) and office B (a branch office). We have a secure VPN tunnel > between offices which creates a WAN. Office A Has a Windows Server > 2003 Standard with Active Directory. Office B has a Windows Server > 2003 Standard w/out Active Directory. The server in office B is a > member server in the domain (controlled by server A). All workstations > in office B are members of the domain. Our WAN connection went down. > While the WAN was down none of the workstations is office B can access > the server in office B. They are getting a message such as "no domain > controller is available to validate your logon". I'm looking for a > solution which will allow the workstations in office B to still have > access to the server in office B if the WAN connection should go down > again in the future. Thanks in advance. >
Guest Phillip Windell Posted April 1, 2008 Posted April 1, 2008 Re: server communications "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message news:ff16fb66943128ca622bd7732c2e@msnews.microsoft.com... > Hello mark, > > You need a DC/DNS/DHCP and Global catalog server in the location to get > full redundancy if the main server or connection is down. ....and don't forget to use the Sites Object in AD to regulate the AD replication over the slow WAN link. -- Phillip Windell http://www.wandtv.com The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or anyone else associated with me, including my cats. -----------------------------------------------------
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