[Gllug] Windows VPN / samba problem (bit urgent)

[Jonathan Dye]

Peter wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I have a bit of a problem.
> 
> We have:
> 
> 
> Windoze 2000 profesional(VPN client) ----->internet----->Windoze 2000
> professional (VPN Server)---------Linux box (running samba)
> 
> 
> At the moment the linux box is sharing out a couple of disks using
> samba ok. 
> 
> The Windoze VPN server can see the drives.
> 
> However the windoze VPN Client can't
> The windoze VPN client can see shared "folders" on the VPN servers
> local disk.
> 
> So I need to know how to get the windoze VPN server to be able to
> share the network drives
> being shared from the linux box (that's where the linux problem lies).
> 
> Has anyone else had any experience of doing this?

This sounds similar to the problem I posted a while backa bout samba
broadcast packets not going over VPN.  SMB uses broadcast packets for
various things such as announcing which computers and shares are available
on the network, therefore machines that do not see the broadcasts cannot see
the shares.  You can solve this by setting up your samba machine to be a
WINS server and then configuring the remote client to use the linux box as a
WINS server.  

JD

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