[Samba] samba over a vpn

[Shawn Henderson]

I do the same. I had a few problems at first but I made the main site my 
  wins server and pointed all the remote site servers and workstations 
to it. Works Great.. Although to speed up the process I made each 
location its own domain with trust relationships.

Greg Andrews wrote:

> 
> Howdy All,
> 
> Sorry about the last posting. My machine sent the mail in mid keystroke
> for some reason.
> This may not be the correct list for this sort of question, so please
> excuse me if it is not quite right.
> 
> I have three sites ( going to become four shortly ) which are connect via
> dlink equipment to create a vpn
> 
> main site      192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 with the gateway at .0.6 and the
> samba server at .0.5
> site1          192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 with gateway 1.6
> site3          192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 with gateway 2.6
> 
> Now the question is can I get windows 9x and xp boxes on the 1.x and 2.x
> network to login to the samba box at 0.5. If so how ??
> The three sites "see" each other quite nicely ( can ping any machine on
> the 0.0 network from either of the other networks ) with 30-40ms access
> time.
> Will samba work in this scenario ??
> 
> Any and all help appreciated
> 
> Greg Andrews
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