I have a remote office connected to Headquarters over a WAN. The HQ provides DNS, ActiveDirectory, etc. The remote office is not allowed to use Workgroups.
At the remote location I designate 1 machine to be a server and I have 2 clients that want to access the 1 designated server. All 3 boxes are at the remote office,
I create a share on the server and give 2 local site users permissions to the share. These users are domain\usernames. Now the clients both have access to the share on the server and all is good.
The Problem: Sporadically, the remote location loses internet and thus loses access to the WAN services such as DNS/ActiveDirectory, etc. At this point my clients cannot access the share. Is there a solution to this situation? Also, using local accounts/workgroup is against corp policy so Domain names are required for logins/permissions, etc. When the WAN is down my shares are dead.
Any ideas on how I can resolve this?