[Samba] join domain from different subnet (VPN)

[Gaiseric Vandal]

Did you try a packet capture on the samba server? 

Try adding a entry for the XP machine in the server's /etc/hosts file. 

I am guessing there is some sort of weird name resolution issue going on
with the server.    I don't think there is any reason the server should
need to resolve the name of the client machine but I have had weird
issues with VPN connections before. 

This is a site-to-site VPN?  

On 08/30/12 05:34, real-men-dont-click at gmx.net wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> we have a problem joining a domain from a remote location.
>
> The remote location is connected via VPN. Everything is working as exspected but joining the samba domain from the remote location does not work.
>
> - Server Samba Version is 3.5.10
> - Windows Client is XP SP3
> - Joining the domain locally works without problems
> - ping does work in both directions
> - WINS is running on the local PDC and resolves across VPN (I tested with a Linux client using nbmlookup)
> - the WINS server is configured on the client
> - NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled on the client
> - Windows on the client firewall is OFF
> - even adding entries to the client's lmhosts file didn't solve the problem
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> thx
>
> Carsten