[Samba] join domain from different subnet (VPN)

[Angel Bosch]

we had lot of problems with Wins and remote sites. 

be sure Wins traffic is passing. 

abosch 


----- Original Message -----
From: real-men-dont-click at gmx.net 
To: samba at lists.samba.org, "gaiseric vandal" <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:21:06 PM 
Subject: Re: [Samba] join domain from different subnet (VPN) 

Hi, 

I already tried that, no success. 

The VPN connects two subnets via OpenVPN with dedicated routers on each side. 


thx 

Carsten 



-----Original message----- 
To: samba at lists.samba.org; 
From: Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thu 30-08-2012 14:58 
Subject: Re: [Samba] join domain from different subnet (VPN) 
> 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 
> 
> 
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