[Samba] Netbios over VPN

[kazabe]

did you have the dns service enabled?




2012/7/5 Andrew Mark <andrewm at aimsystems.ca>:
> I am attempting to utilize BackupPC on a Fedora 14 server to backup a remote client.
> As I understand, it's primary mechanism for finding clients is performing a nmblookup <clientname>
> This works fine for computers connected to the local network.
> My issue is extending ?Samba's? search to encompass our other network - the point-to-point VPNs
> Using OpenVPN, we have a number of road warriors who connect their VPN to gain access to the samba server.
> Each has a unique static IP address in the 10.30.251 range and when connected, I can find them but not samba
> i.e.
> #> ping john_laptop
> --- john.inspirah.com ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.900/14.764/24.388/6.805 ms
>
> #> nmblookup john_laptop
> querying john_laptop on 127.255.255.255
> querying john_laptop on 10.30.7.255
> name_query failed to find name john_laptop
>
> How to I configure Samba or whatever Linux service is necessary to query the 10.30.251.255 network as well
>
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