Dear all, I have a 1 primary central site and 5 secondary sites in mixed mode. I have 40 locations with 5 to 10 machines in each location. The machines of these locations does not have connectivity to my corporate network directly where my SCCM Server is placed.In turn there is a Win 2K3 server in each location with 2 NIC cards, one connected to the corporate network and the other connected to the local network where those machines are there. My company wants these machines to be managed by SCCM. We cant go for native mode. Can i do some NATTING for the SCCM Server so that the clients will reach my sccm server.? Otherwise is there any other option to achieve this? Thanks in advance.. pls help..urgent.

You say native mode isn't an option, yet posted in the native mode forum - so moving to the General forum for some alternative ideas. Could you configure a VPN tunnel using the Windows Server 2003 servers and treat these clients like workgroup computers? NAT is not supported for mixed mode clients (from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547071.aspx): Network Address Translation (NAT) is not supported in Configuration Manager unless the site is configured for Internet-based client management and the client detects that it is on the Internet.

If your Win2k3 server has access to both networks, you might be able to set that server up as a secondary site. all of the "remote" systems would report to the secondary site server, then the secondary site server could report to the primary server. Also, depending on why those networks are segmented and the method the network engineers used, it might also be possible for them to create an ACL to allow the primary server to talk directly to the systems in the segmented network. James