Brock Nanson wrote:
> 
> The catch to all this is browse lists.  Unless you are running Samba
> boxes on *both* ends of the VPN doing browse list synchronization, you
> won't see the machines in both LAN's in Network Neighborhood.  I also
> found that having one of the Samba boxes do WINS serving helped... I
> never needed the lmhosts or hosts files on the workstations.  However,
> if you don't have Samba, you can map resources by IP without issue.  I
> found that transfers were MUCH faster this way, rather than using
> Network Neighborhood.  Don't know why... Just a M$ thing I guess.
> 
> As far as firewall rules go, I can't say for sure as I'm using Eiger,
> not Dachstein, but the only issue I had was with SNMP being blocked by
> default when I tried to get a Jet Direct card going on the other side.
> Virtually everything else goes straight down the tunnel as it's
> encrypted anyway.  So, if your tunnel is up and operational, you should
> be able to cut/paste at will.  But the local browse broadcasts aren't
> routable and hence, won't find their way onto the other subnet.

What do you mean, ``able to cut/paste at will''?

What about shares?  If we cannot browse to the other side with explorer,
how do we map shares?  Manually, by knowing the name/address and share
name?

> > Message: 14
> > Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:49:26 -0600
> > From: "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Organization: mds resource
> > To: LEAF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [Leaf-user] DCD, ipsec & windows networking ???
> >
> >
> > OK, we have setup two (2) ipsec gateways on two DCD firewalls
> > across the internet.  Standard tcp/ip stuff works as expected.
> >
> > Now, we want to get the m$oft windoze networks on each side
> > to interact with each other, as if they are on the same network.
> >
> > We have setup lmhosts files on each side for testing
> > purposes; but, we cannot get windoze networking to work.
> >
> > What changes to the firewall are necessary?
> >
> > What do you think?

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