[Samba] Shares get disconnected and cannot reconnect over VPN
Fabio Muzzi
liste at kurgan.org
Mon Aug 8 14:10:56 GMT 2005
Hello samba,
I have an issue with OpenVPN 2.0 and Samba 3.0.14a.
My setup consists in a routed VPN (thus server and clients are on
different subnets) between a linux OpenVPN 2.0 server and some Windows
2000 VPN clients. Samba is the PDC and is a WINS server.
The VPN clients work, broswing works, and I see the clients registering
on the server's WINS in /var/lib/samba/wins.dat.
When I connect to a share, I get connected and can use it, but after
about 8 minutes of inactivity (no open files), the share gets
disconnected, and when I try to use it again, Windows says it cannot
access the drive. After some retries, I can connect again and the whole
thing repeats from the beginning.
I have tried also using PPTP (which puts me on the same subnet as the
server, not on a different one) and basically it seems I am getting the
same behaviour.
Obviosuly the same clients, when connected directly to the server's lan,
show no issues at all and work flawlessly.
I don't know if PPTP lets broacasts go through or not. OpenVPN does not,
since it's routed and not bridged. I assume that apart from speed (512K
on WAN connections) broadcasts are the only differences between LAN and
WAN set-ups.
Is there something I missed with broadcasts? I assume that since I use
WINS, I don't need broadcasts to make Samba work. Am I wrong?
--
Fabio "Kurgan" Muzzi
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