[Sussex] Remote (Samba 3.0.x) Domain Accesss

[Richie Jarvis]

paul Morriss wrote:
> Richie
>   Would the remote machine be part of the domain?  The firewall that we 
> will be going through is Smoothwall Express 2.. Should I expeact any 
> issues ?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Paul
Hi Paul,

The remote part is the IP address of the machine running the OpenVPN server.

Smoothwall shouldn't be a problem - just allow port 1194 UDP to connect 
through to the OpenVPN server machine.

Also, I forgot to mention - use OpenVPN v2.0, not 1.x, as the older 
versions require that each tunnel for each external machine occurs on a 
different port (which is a pain) - 2.0 sorts it all out automatically 
for you.

When generating the keys, use the easy-rsa scripts provided in the 
OpenVPN package - makes life alot easier.

Users can't browse the network as normal using my configs, they need to 
know the name of the machine they are connecting to - i.e. \\myserver - 
There is an example config on the website that explains how to get 
proper browsing working, however, CIFS causes alot of traffic whilst 
browsing, so I opted to make life a little more difficult for my users 
to discourage it, as we only have an ADSL line at work ;)

Cheers,

Richie