[Samba] Samba server visible via VPN

[Roger McCoy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Chmielewski [mailto:mangoo at wpkg.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:27 AM
> To: Martin Hochreiter
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba server visible via VPN
>
>
> Martin Hochreiter schrieb:
> > I have 2 subnets connected via VPN.
> > In one subnet is the W2K AD PDC in the
> > second a Samba 3.20b server.
> >
> > I can't see the Samba Server on the other net in the
> > browsing list on a windows machine.
> > I think the cause for that is the VPN connection - is there
> > a chance to solve that?
>
> set both servers as WINS servers, and configure your clients to use both
> WINS servers.
>
> other way is to configure your VPN connection to pass ethernet packets
> (i.e. if you're using OpenVPN, use tap device instead of tun).

Incidentally, some VPN servers can recommend a WINS server for the
connection, saving you the trouble of configuring and un-configuring every
system that joins/leaves your network.  Cisco's PIX firewall is one example
of this.

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Roger McCoy