Accessing local Windows domain from remote network

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James Howe

I'm a newbie to working with Windows Active Directory and related
administration, so please excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question. I'm
working in a remote office which is running a Windows 2000 server which
has a domain controller running for our local network. We have a handful
of machines in our office which are part of this domain. Our home office
is located in another state on another network. We have access to the
home office network via a VPN (and vice versa). The remote domain is
controlled by a Windows NT Server machine. What I would like to know is
whether we could install a new computer at our home office but have it
join the domain managed by our remote office? In other words, we want to
add a new computer to our "local" network that just happens to reside at
our home office location. Let's assume that the new computer is running
Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Is this something that can be easily done?
If so, what do we need to do to set this up. Conceptually what I would
like to do is open the "Join a domain" dialog from the new machine at the
home office and enter the IP address of the domain controller running at
our remote office, but this doesn't work, does it?

Any help you can give on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
Hello James,

Thank you for your post!

If I understand you correctly, the remote office is running Windows 2000
Active Directory, and the home office is a Windows NT 4.0 domain. Your goal
is to have a machine in the home office join the Windows 2000 Domain.

This should be possible as long as the client has name resolution to the
Windows 2000 domain. You should have a trust setup between the two domains
so the clients can access resources within both domains.

Example:
Remote Office <===========VPN==========> Home Office

The Windows 2000/XP client needs to be able to route to the remote office
and have it's "Prefer DNS" IP set to the Windows 2000 DNS Server for the
Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain. Then you can just have the client
join the domain.

Best Regards,
Ben Ybarra, Microsoft

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