[Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN

[James W. Beauchamp]

Bradley:
Thanks.  I would VERY much like to see another solution.  I use VTUN myself
and it works great for this sort of thing, but alas, I was not asked an
opinion on this one ;), and now the customer is paying the price I think.
The WINS entries are valid since before the SW's went into place they
weren't there and those machine names are not on my local lan.  (its only 6
people local and 4 remote)

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley W. Langhorst" <brad at langhorst.com>
To: "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
Cc: "Savage, Elijah" <elijah_savage at reyrey.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Browsing and Mapped Drives over a VPN


> Maybe those wins entries are old?
>
> I think you can use stunnel on both ends to move nmb traffic.
> or setup something more robust like CIPE or FreeS/WAN.
>
> brad
> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 12:45, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> > 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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