[Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN

[James W. Beauchamp]

Yes, I set up tcpdump and never saw any traffic while he was trying to
connect via "map network drive" in Win2k

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Savage, Elijah" <elijah_savage at reyrey.com>
To: "'James W. Beauchamp'" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: [Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN


> I am not exactly sure how this has taken place, because it is broadcast
> traffic also, could this be left over before the vpn solutions was put in
> place. But it can be easily found out by using tcpdump on the unix box to
> see what type of traffic he is receiving.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James W. Beauchamp [mailto:jbeauchamp at gesinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:35 PM
> To: Savage, Elijah
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN
>
> Elijah:
> Thanks for the quick response :).  Can you tell me how the machine name
and
> workgroup go into the wins.dat then?  Is that via tcp/ip instead of
netbios?
> or something else? I'm just trying to learn a little networking here.
>
> James
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Savage, Elijah" <elijah_savage at reyrey.com>
> To: "'James W. Beauchamp'" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>;
<samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:29 AM
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN
>
>
> > Sonicwall's will not pass win's traffic you may have to get him to poke
> > holes in the firewall product. If this consultant has worked with Cisco
> > equipment before, on the Cisco's it would be the equivalent to the
command
> > Ip helper (address)
> >
> > This tells the router to pass 8 different types of protocols which
include
> > NetBIOS traffic, but from my little work of installing sonicwalls they
do
> > not support this feature.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James W. Beauchamp [mailto:jbeauchamp at gesinc.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:13 PM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN
> >
> > Hello All:
> > I have a situation where I have a Samba box (RH 7.3 w/samba 2.2.4) that
I
> > set up for a client.  Another consultant came along and installed a VPN
> > using SonicWalls between the main site and a remote site.  So now they
> want
> > the remote users to save files on my Samba box.  No problem except that
> the
> > remote users can't see my local workgroup or any of the local machines.
> > Here's what's wierd (or where my knowledge breaks down :) )Their machine
> > names and workgroup name is registered in samba's wins database.  I am
the
> > only wins server on both subnets (10.0.1.x local and 10.0.2.x remote).
> The
> > remote lan group is peer-to-peer setup with each client pointing at my
> Samba
> > box (who is at 10.0.1.128).  So my question is as follows - how did
their
> > machine names get registered if netbios traffic is not passing the
> Sonicwall
> > vpn?  or does that use TCP/IP instead?  I'm in need of a little netbios
> > education here I think in order to tell the other consultant what to
open
> up
> > on the VPN boxes.  Are they blocking ports 137 and 139 or is it
something
> > else.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> >
> > James
> >
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