server communications

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.

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
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> 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.
>

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) .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.


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