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

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 15:21, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> Peter wrote:

> > 
> > 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.  

I agree with Jonathan. In order to 'see' resources, a Windows machine
needs to connect to a local master browser.
I think the issue was well described on the GLLUG thread a few weeks
ago.


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