[Samba] Samba Over A Wan

[Robert Schetterer]

Hi,
with internal dns servers ( master...slave)  and the right wins entries 
in smb.conf
you will have full function enabeled in all vpn nets.
Study wins browsing in the samba faqs and use the tap interface as its 
written in the openfaqs
to make use of wins.
Regards
Rhys Goodwin schrieb:

>Hey Guys,
> Im also using openvpn. I would also recommend routed IP rather then 
>ethernet bridging for WAN use.
>As far as routed subnets go, I was wondering, is it possible to drop WINS 
>and use DNS for name resolution and Would that be a prefered option?
>
>Cheers,
>Rhys
> On 9/7/05, Thomas M. Skeren III <tms3 at fsklaw.com> wrote: 
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>>Mike McMullen wrote:
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>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miller" <david3d at gmail.com>
>>>Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Over A Wan
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>>>>I'm currently using OpenVPN to allow access to Samba over WAN. Works
>>>>pretty good but my experience has been that browsing shares and
>>>>directory structures over the WAN can be somewhat frustrating to
>>>>users. I believe this is b/c windows file sharing is a pretty heavy
>>>>protocal and our WAN connection is only 768bps up and down. You'll
>>>>also want to be using WINS for name resolution unless you're bridging
>>>>your OpenVPN subnet with your local subnet which I would avoid doing
>>>>if possible.
>>>>
>>>>David
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>>>Hi David! Thank you for your feedback. Our connection is a T1. The 
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>>people
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>>>would be accessing a folder that has 3 folders in it with < 200 files
>>>in each folder.
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>>>The connection would be their box to our box only. Would I still need
>>>WINS
>>>in this scenario?
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>>Well you could map the drive by IP addy instead. I have 10 offices
>>connected by IPSEC encapsulated VLan. Users access the resources on the
>>various drives on various servers over the vlan. Sure it can be a bit
>>sluggish, but it's not horrible.
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>>>I'm not up on Windows requirements.
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>Mike
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