> The XP > VPN Clients are not using hosts or lmhosts files. Wins is not used over the > VPN. All the samba and windows machines on the network are configured > to use WINS so I don't think they would respond to netbios broadcast > requests looking for a machine by name. > > Does it not work that when a windows machine has no wins server that it can use the master browser to resolve netbios names? If such is the case, then perhaps the pdc is not being listed by the master browser that the vpn clients are consulting? I am not familiar with the type of VPN you are working with, but I know broadcast is a problem for the ones I have worked with. If you have a full virtual nic on the LAN, then this probably isn't a problem for you, but in my experience, a vpn client cannot send a broadcast packet to a remote LAN. This has caused me some serious grey hairs over my time playing with vpns and windows networking, seems a lot of things depend on it. just some thoughts...
Bob Miller 334-7117/660-5315 http://computerisms.ca [email protected] Network, Internet, Server, and Open Source Solutions -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
