[Samba] roaming profiles not saved over VPN
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo at mch.one.pl
Thu Nov 25 12:33:36 GMT 2004
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently planning an environment which will survive any disaster
> like domain controller crash:
>
> PDC02
> |
> VPN
> |
> switch
> | |
> PDC01 client01
>
>
> PDC01 and PDC02 are domain controllers, and have identical smb.confs.
>
> client01 is a client, has WINS servers set to PDC01 and PDC02.
>
> users / passwords are replicated using LDAP.
>
>
> Now, under normal operations, clients is authenticated against PDC01
> which is in the same LAN, downloads profile, works, logs off, profile is
> updated.
>
> But when I switch PDC01 off, user can authenticate against PDC02 over
> VPN, but the roaming profile is not transferred after he/she logs out.
>
> Does anyone have any explanation?
>
> PDC01 and PDC02 have *identical* configurations - the only difference is
> that PDC02 is behind a VPN.
It seemed all I have to do was to switch from using tun devices to tap
devices in my OpenVPN setup...
Tomek
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