Setting up on on small office domain

[dmerc]

Hi,

   I am a novice at IT but I am the closest thing to an Administrator at my small company office. We are using Windows Server 2008 for domain access (domain controller) and as a file server. We want to allow remote access to sales people who are on the road and I was thinking that Hamachi could be the answer. Access is primarily for file access on the server, possibly for printing on office printer. My question: If the user logs on to their laptop when they are connected to the LAN then they log on through the domain controller. That much I know and I can do that. However, if they are working outside of the office they cannot log onto the domain so they have to log on to the local machine as a local user. Once they do that and connect to the internet then connect to the Hamachi network, how do they log onto the domain, since they are already logged on to the local machine as a local user? I have not seen any explanation on how this works. I need to know if (and how) this can be done before I present Hamachi to my boss as the solution for us.

    Any insight would be appreciated.

[acklin8]

That is what is am doing right now. Most wireless networks stays connected wean that have logged off local user, then gust logon to domain. They only need to do this at every NEW site thou.

[ruggieroav]

To make things easier, a person working remotely should have the exact same LOCAL user account name and password that he/she has on the domain.  This way, even if NOT logged into the domain proper, domain resources/shares could still be accessed.  If they have to log in twice, with different credentials, that could cause issues.

- Joe

[la1055]

If you are connecting via Hamachi vpn to a local computer in your office, then you are probably working this backwards. With Hamachi installed and your clients in the field, all they need to do is click on their desinated Mapped drive on their laptop or remote office desktop to allow remote access to you local server files or folders.

Since I think you have created logon accounts to your server domain, then I would just make sure you add each remote user to Hamachi then using there logon and assuming the hamachi client is installed on ther remote users laptop or remote office desktop Hamachi on your server will Assign a finger printer access key soon after they get to the server. Then they will be able to see the server from anywhere they are remotely hooked up to wi-fi or networking facility.

Please rememeber that an AUTO.BAT file for mapping your drives and folder is installed to allow for automatic mapping for the remote users.

example ; vendors.bat would allow them to get to drive c:\vendor folder\excel spreadsheets\*.xls.

example; purchasing.bat would allow them to get to drive e:\purchasing folder\sales proposals\*.doc  

example; truckdriver.bat would allow them to get to drive d:\drivers folder\log books\*xls and or *.doc.

a bat files sometimes would look like this ;

example net use c: \\servername\foldername\vendorfolder

example net use c:\\servername\sysfolder

[ewestfall]

I have the same issue, but I'm not sure I follow your bat file explaination. When plugged in to my domain at work, my laptop sees the mapped network drives. But when I login at home, the mapped drives are not accesible. When I bring up the Hamachi window I can ping the server, but I can't browse. How do I map the drives so I can see them when offsite?