VPN Server Also File Server

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Scenario:
30 remote staff, all require access via their internet
connection to our windows 2003 standard edt file server.
I figured put the file server on the internet, set it up
as a VPN server and lock down all ports except VPN on the
switch (or possibly the server?). The only examples I can
find of file serving via VPN is where the vpn server is a
different physical machine to the windows file server.
The windows file server is basically a domain controller
with users setup, each user has their own home dir and a
shared dir for all users.

The aim is to have remote users connect to the file
server on a VPN, the file server also to be the VPN
server, once they are connected to map their home dir on
the server to a drive on their computer. The file server
has only remote access (no physical lan connections, the
server sits in a cabinet in a datacenter).

Doable or do i need 2 servers?
 
"The file server has only remote access (no physical lan connections, the
server sits in a cabinet in a datacenter). "

Can your VPN Server access the file server? I view it as any resource behind
the VPN Server which should be accessible to the VPN client after successful
connection.

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Thanks
Sharoon
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"Can your VPN Server access the file server"

The VPN Server and the File server would be on the same
physical machine, that si really what I am trying to ask,
can I run a VPN server on the same machine as the file
server (bearing in mind the only connection to the file
server is via the VPN server).
 
Your VPN server and file server (DC) can be on the same machine.

Thanks,
Priya.

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Yes you can.

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Sharoon
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