Yes.

First you will need to get the VPN up (or be in the office, in the same network to be able to join the AD domain.

Then you need to join the AD domain using realmd. This will join the computer to the AD domain like any regular windows PC. It will set up the Kerberos client, DNS and everything for you (this part is done in sssd).

Once joined you should be able to access the network shares with SMB.

RedHat and deriviates have good support for this. So I would recommend Fedora Workstation, CentOS Stream or RHEL Desktop to set this up in.

docs: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/windows_integration_guide/ch-configuring_authentication

If you use WSL, you can easily access the windows drives. In a VM, you can share the folder from the host.

Another method would be to just mount the remote smb location from your DC using fstab. I use Linux on bare metal, and I added a line to my remote share with noauto, so it doesn't mount it automatically at boot, since I need to connect to the VPN first, and I don't need permanent access. When I do need access, I just run mount adm and I'm in.

I think you can mount network shares with the Kerberos token you got from AD. Sometimes just the user credentials suffice. At least that's how it used to be when I last tried something like that years ago.

My understanding is that there are modules you can install to AD join a linux machine, i don't know much about it unfortunatly because it's not something i've ever had to do. I'm also unclear whether there is a different process per distro type.

I would speak to your company IT about it tbh.

I guess WSL is best way, but I think you’ll only be able to have the Linux windows like windows windows in the taskbar of windows and launch them with windows