Do I need to setup a hardware profile for my remote user?

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Kelvin Beaton

I have a use with a laptop who plugs into our corporate network, and also
connects from her remote office using a VPN over a DSL connection.

Seems like the PC has a hard time seeing the corporate network when it's
here. Takes like 20 minutes or so before one can brouse the network.
Today I could ping across the network but couldn't see anything on it. Even
the existing mapped drive didn't show any content.

Is there a way to speed up the time it takes to discover the network?

Should I have a separate hardware profile for each office. Off hand I'm not
real sure what I'd set differently between the two.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kelvin
 
I am guessing your corporate network and her remote office are on different
networks/domains?


DDS
 
Is she using a VPN client? And is she disabling the client when she comes
into the office, before she plugs into your network?
Also - if you're using AD, is your DHCP scope set to dish out only the
internal AD-integrated DNS server's IP address, with forwarders to the ISP's
DNS servers set up on the AD-integrated DNS server for Internet name
resolution?
 
depending on the usage, you may want to simply add your corporate DNS on her
laptop if she uses the laptop excusive for work otherwise you may want to
have a network switcher software with home, vpn, office configuration for
ip, dns, gateway...one such commercial software is netswitcher and is only
about $20 some dollars.
 
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