tinc - Jul 2007 - Road Warrior: connecting and loging onto domain

Dear list,

For some small office, I want to use tinc to connect a road warrior to 
the office-network. Server is running debian, 2.6 kernel, and provides 
logon, file (samba) and mail services to several Windows XP clients. One 
user has a laptop and wishes to use it wireless at the office and also 
at home.

Anyone familiair with such a setup? Can the user logon to the PDC and 
download her roaming profile over the VPN-link? I assume the 
drive-mappings will then work as if being on the local network? Maybe 
combining this with folder redirection to keep the profile-footprint as 
small as possible?

When she connects at the office, working through the VPN is not 
desireable. In that case, I would like the laptop to directly connect to 
the wlan en login to the PDC. Does this automagically happen when the 
VPN-link is shutdown manually?

Sorry for the maybe general questions, I already ran trough the 
archives. Missing the big picture here before I dare to go for this option.

--
Best regards,
Sjon Wijnolst

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:15:08PM +0200, Sjon Wijnolst wrote:

[...]
> When she connects at the office, working through the VPN is not 
> desireable. In that case, I would like the laptop to directly connect to 
> the wlan en login to the PDC. Does this automagically happen when the 
> VPN-link is shutdown manually?
That should probably work. It depends on the kind of routes that are in
the routing table. If the entry for the VPN has a lower priority than
the route to the LAN when she is at the office, then traffic to the PDC
should go directly via the LAN, even if tinc is still running. If the
route to the VPN interface has a higher priority, then maybe stopping
tinc will work, but I am not sure. Try it out.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>
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