[Samba] VPN question

[Eric Garff]

The subnet for both is 10.10.0.0/16

Also, what if via there isn't a WINS server defined on the VPN client?

Thanks again!

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 15:07, Terry Davis wrote:
> 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,
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