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

[Peter Adamson]

Jonathan Dye wrote:

>Peter wrote:
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>>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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That's cool I'll try that out on tuesday.
  (urgencys gone a bit beacuse I've gone home)

--Peter



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