Is it possible to restrict fileserver access to domain users using computers that are members of the domain?

Posted by Chris Madden on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Chris Madden
Published on 2010-12-20T15:51:38Z Indexed on 2010/12/21 12:55 UTC
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It seems domain isolation can be used to accomplish, but I'd like a solution that doesn't require IPsec, or more accurately, doesn't require IPsec on the fileserver. IPsec if done in software has a large CPU overhead and our NAS boxes don't support any kind of offload.

The goal is to avoid authenticated users using non-managed machines to access network resources. Network Access Protection (NAP) and the various enforcement points looked promsiing but I couldn't find a bulletproof way to use them [which doesn't require IPsec on the fileserver].

I was thinking when a domain user accesses the NAS box it will first need a Kerberos ticket from AD, so if AD could somehow verify the computer that was requesting the ticket was in the domain I'd have a solution.

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