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This is an interesting thread. I'm a senior IT Techinician and I work with two other IT Techs. I report to the Business Manager who deals with the money and makes decisions. I play the role of both IT Technician and invisible network manager. We seemingly have no ICT Head. I think our school does it on the cheap.

This is great stuff. Check this live version too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A3hEBvIE0zo

That was how I had to do it in the end, it was very difficult though. But it it has been so worth while, the macs are by a mile the best behaved computers in the school. Just occasionally the odd one drops off the domain but that's nothing compared to our XP PC's. Of course I say that, I suspect as soon as we get more in, the likelihood of problems goes up!

We have about 7 iMacs and 2 MacBooks here and I try to look after them myself. They are all running on our windows domain and I can cope with that, but when they want to expand, I may have some trouble doing it on my own. I have found that Apple themselves are not helpful when it comes to getting macs onto a windows domain. They told me they do not support it.

Hello somabc. From home? Yes I can, but did not want users to have to do the same!

Thank you for replying. The VPN is hosted by someone called Atomwide. I am waiting to hear back what they say about this. All of the IP addresses have been given to me by County and do not know how their subnets work. the XP workstation does seem to be a bit different to the servers (the 3rd number is different).

Hello. I do not have to post here very often as someone has normally had the same thing before I get there. But I cannot find any help for a problem I am having with remote desktop through a VPN. From within school, I can use remote desktop from my desk to control any of the computers on the network. When I am at home, I can access the Windows 2003 servers without problem using remote desktop. But, I cannot access any of the XP workstations. When I type the IP address of the computer, it just comes up with a network error, it does not even get to the log in page. Is there something I need to set up either on the XP computer or in group policy that tells which computers can be accessed out of school? Obviously, as it works on the servers, the VPN is functioning correctly, so perhaps they may be set up as they are servers on the domain? I have been looking at this for a few days now and have not found anything online to help other than Terminal Servers, which currently, I am not sure we need. I have set up the web component needed, but cannot find anything else. Can anyone help me here? Thank you.

This is a fantastic guide. Thank you so much for posting Fatmas, really helpful!