[Samba] Openvpn and samba: play nice together?

[Krutskikh Ivan]

Hm, I can mount cifs over tun openvpn with no problem. I never though it to
be something impossible.

2015-11-02 17:45 GMT+03:00 Allen Chen <achen at harbourfrontcentre.com>:

> openVPN with TUN connection works perfect here.
> I configured 2 TUN connections to connect two remote offices(over DSL
> line) to our main site without any issue.
> Here is my configuration:
> Main site: samba4 AD DC server1, plus a file server1, and a dedicated
> openVPN server
> site1: samba4 AD DC server2, plus a file server2, and a dedicated openVPN
> server with TUN connection to the main site
>            all clients log in to this AD DC and can map share on file
> server2(local) and on file server1(located in the main site)
> site2: no AD DC, but a dedicated openVPN server with TUN connection to the
> main site
>            all clients log in to the AD DC on the main site, and map share
> on file server1(located in the main site)
>
> I think if you don't use browse function then you don't need TAP
> connection.
> AD DC uses DNS without any broadcast.
>
> Allen
>
> On 11/1/2015 7:20 AM, Christian Keck wrote:
>
>> You definetly need a TAP connection to make samba work over VPN. We use
>> OpenVPN host2net-accounts created with IPCop here since quite a while and
>> it works with samba without problems. However, the speed is of course not
>> as fast as in local net, but this is rather related to the way the
>> SMB-protocoll works. ;-)
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: samba [samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]" im Auftrag von
>> "Reindl Harald [h.reindl at thelounge.net]
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 1. November 2015 05:41
>> An: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Betreff: Re: [Samba] Openvpn and samba: play nice together?
>>
>> Am 31.10.2015 um 21:45 schrieb Douglas D Germann Sr:
>>
>>> I'm stumped! Cannot get mount.cifs to work over a tun connection. How
>>> would you trouble-shoot this?
>>>
>>> 1. It cannot be openvpn causing the problem: I can ping across the
>>> connection both directions on all machines
>>>
>> TUN is a routed VPN with no broadcast over networks
>> TAP is a bridged VPN
>>
>> so it *can* and likely is how you setup your VPN
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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