Hi,
the problem you're describing is common to such setups. IMHO the following
will help you in your setup:
1. raise the VPN timeouts
This should prevent your VPN to go offline.
2. install a PDC/ BDC in each location
Distribute distribute domain specific information to all locations, so you
don't rely so heavily on your VPN. The samba-howto gives you information
about the setup (Chapter 5. Backup Domain Control -> LDAP Configuration
Notes).
For this setup you need a Linux-box in each location. Depending on the needed
performance/ size of your locations/ ... , it can range from something like a
"Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH with OpenWRT" up to a small server.
Cheers,
Christian
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--------ray klassen <julius_ahenobarbus at yahoo.co.uk> wrote--------
Subject: [Samba] VPN/WAN Domain members
Date: 24.11.2010 18:15
>I have about 60 PC's running windows XP behind vpn routers in different
>locations. I find that they lose connection or sync (or whatever the right
>word
>is) to the domain periodically, probably when the vpn shuts down due to
>low
>demand. The result is that any domain user not already in the local
>password
>hash cache cannot log in and any local share with domain permissions on it
>will
>not allow the a domain account access if the pc is not rebooted. Is there
>any
>way to force windows to resync without a reboot or to make XP more fault
>tolerant to slower connections to the samba domain?
>
>Thanks in advance. etc...
>
>
>
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