Hello List,
OpenVPN v2.0.5 works much better that v2.0.2 in my totally non-IP
environment.
I have a LAN (all-winXP-SP2) where all the file-sharing is done with
NetBEUI. IP family is used only to access the external hosts through
POP3, SMTP and HTTP[S]. "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" is disabled on all
instances of TCP/IP on all adapters, all 135~139 and 445 ports are
closed. There is no domain, no WINS, only a good old workgroup.
When I bridge TAP-win32 with NIC and unbind the file-sharing off the
TCP/IP (on the sever) - the remote connection works with some
anomalities.
Namely those anomalities are (please compare to my 8 Sep 2005
02:32:11 post) now:
- the road warrior (winXP-SP2) machine now can access the sharings of the
OpenVPN server and other's on the LAN;
- any attempt made on all other LAN machines to browse (via the
short-cut to the workgroup) the neibourhood ends with the "You have
no access rights..." failure, but if they search the neibourhood
manually - they can discover and access the workgroup (including the
road warrior now) on one-by-one basis (i.e. it takes to search for
the particular machine to discover it, all others stay invisible
still, the neibourhood remains unpopulated);
- the OpenVPN server does not loose all the file-sharing ability when the
road warrior connects, it's neibourhood gets populated as it
should;
- the road warrior now can see and access the whole workgroup's
sharings, the neibourhood stays unpopulated, it takes the manual
searching to discover any machine there;
OpenVPN v2.0.5, runs as the service in the bridged mode.
Please comment.
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Best regards,
Anthony
