[Samba] VPN question

[Terry Davis]

If the vpn clients are on a different subnet, they are probably
configured to use the wins server.  You need to tell samba to be a wins
client to the main server.


On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 16:00, Eric Garff wrote:
> I haven't been very successful in finding an answer to a problem I am
> experiencing (I've done the cursory search of the samba lists archive,
> and I've also been talking with Cisco).
> 
> Essentially, my issue is that when connecting to our VPN, I can browse
> the shares of all the actual Microsoft machines, but our main file
> server (linux, with samba) is unaccessible.  I can ping it by both name
> and IP, but if I go into say "network neighborhood" and type in
> "\\trooper\", or \\10.10.1.10\ it's a no go.
> 
> Here is the answer from the Cisco engineer after pointing her to the
> samba.org web site:
> 
> "Hello, and thank you for the information.  I looked at the link and
> found alot of information on this.  From what I've read so far, I don't
> know if this will work.  There is a few reason why.  First the ipsec
> tunnel does not support broadcast or mulicast traffic.  From the link
> the traffic is sent via broadcast or point-to-point (unicast).  I don't
> know in which you have it configered.  This is the same with NetBios- it
> generally uses broadcast or multicast. 
> 
> Next, I see that it queries based on hostname and ip address.  This can
> be a problem also, since the vpn client is based on a shim, whereas
> devices can only query an address from a virtual address or physical
> address."
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> -- 
> Eric Garff
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