NT/Wingate Security Question

[The Ricster]

Maybe someone can help explain exactly how the whole user security thing works in wingate (vpn). I have read as much as I could find on the subject, but it is somewhat confusing.

Although Wingate can use NT domain security for other functions, I have read that it can not use it for verification of vpn's, which means that you have to create a wingate user for logging in to the wingate server, but how does this user gain access to network shares which are only accessable to validated domain users? Do I need to create duplicate users in wingate with the same credentials as the network users?

Also,

When setting up a LAN to LAN connection between 2 wingate servers, and each lan is a different domain, are their certain NT (Win2k) configurations required, like trust accounts and such?

Any help would be appreciated.

[adrien]

Hi

Actually WinGate VPN 2 can use the Windows user database for connecting the VPN client to the VPN server.

But the issue you are raising is related to network security for access to shares, disks, printers etc.

This is all handled by the native windows security. I.e. if you have an active directory, then the AD server may be setting policies, or a domain controller, or even simple workgroup access.

This means that the users on LAN A, if they want to access resources on LAN B, will need credentials that work on LAN B.

In a workgroup scenario, this would mean that the servers on LAN B, would need accounts set up matching the LAN A users.

If you are using an active directory, then the LAN A users would need to log into the active directory (i.e. when they log into windows).

Adrien