[Samba] VPN question

[Terry Davis]

Ummm, if they are on the same subnet....hrm...broadcast will not get
back to the vpn clients regardless if they are on the same subnet
because the vpn client hacks the packets as it sees them come accross,
the client itself is really configured for a much different ip address,
which is different for each client....they need to be set to use a wins
server.....


On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 16:10, Eric Garff wrote:
> 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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