VPN and login

[Jon Carnes]

If you are connecting two or more sites together then how you login really
depends on the network you are using.

For an NT network you should have a BDC (backup domain controller) and a
WINS server at the remote location.  You can get by without them, but timing
issues on the remote network will frustrate you.

For Novell, you should have a server on site at the remote location.  Again
you can get by without, but timing issues will frustrate your users.

For a Unix environment you should be fine (but it depends on the exact
functionality you want out of your network).

If you are just attaching individual machines (home users and travelers) via
VPN, then once the vpn connection is made, the remote users just carry on as
though they were on the local network.  For NT machines on an MS-NT network,
you will have to manually add any remote machines to the Domain (unless they
were once on the domain and have already been added).  To add a machine to
the Domain you would go to the PDC (primary domain controller) and under
Administrative Tools / Server Manager, add the remote machine's name.

Your question is a good one, and it is one that Cisco should have been able
to answer.

Best of Luck

Jon Carnes
MIS - HAHT Software

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauziere, Thomas" <tlauziere at GOULSTONSTORRS.COM>
To: <VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 8:47 AM
Subject: VPN and login


> I've had discussions with Cisco about installing a VPN on our PIX
firewall,
> but I think I missed something.
> We've gone over all the intricacies of establishing a connection,
> encryption, des, 3des etc., but when I ask them simply, once the tunnel is
> established how do I log in to the network and run apps, they balked and
> said call the application support people. Cisco is only responsible for
> establishing the tunnel. Let me say that our intentions as far as the VPN
is
> concerned is for remote users only, and I was told they could log in and
it
> would be the essentially the same as connecting from inside the
building.(an
> NT4 Win98 network)
>
> I know this is a bit of a rudimentary question for the obvious expertise
> exhibited here, but if someone could help me out it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom Lauziere
>
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