Site-site vpn with SBS ... please help!

Hi,
Someone please help me with this issue. I've not yet found a reference to
this exact scenario yet (which is wierd; I'm sure others have dealt with
it).

I have a vpn tunnel setup between 2 vpn routers.
My SBS box has 2 nics just like Marina and others recommend. The inside is
192.168.16.2 and outside is 192.168.10.2.
The remote LAN is 192.168.0.x.
The vpn tunnel is between 2 subnets, x.x.0.x at the remote end and x.x.10.x
at the SBS end.
Each end of the VPN can ping the other by, but by IP only.
The SBS firewall is turned off (which I'd like to remedy soon!!!)

What's missing in order to enable the remote end to be able to ping the
server by name?
What's missing in order to have the remote client PCs authenticate into the
VPN upon startup (for scripts, mapped drives, etc?)

If this has been described before, I've not been able to find it. Any
references are appreciated.

Thanks,
Terry

 

PS. Server is SBS Premium but ISA is not installed.

 

Hi

I think there is three ways to address this.
1 Enterthe IP address of the SBS server in the WINS field for all of the PCs
in the remote office.
It may also be useful to enable Netbios over TCP/IP.
This way the PCs will register with the server and should be able to
reference using a name.

2 Add the apprioriate entry to the hosts or lmhosts file on each of the
remote PCs.

3 I installed a separate server in each remote location, added them to the
forest, setup DNS and WINS, pull/push.

This way all PCs talk to their local server.
You can also create different login scripts for each location.
You can also move their user directories to their local server.

cheers