opensource: openvpn can do broadcast!!! On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 07:17:07 -0500, "Gaiseric Vandal" <[email protected]> wrote: > Even though it is a fully virtual NIC I think the firewall (Sonicwall) > still blocks Netbios broadcasts. So as far as I can tell, using DNS is > the only way a VPN client could resolve a windows machine name. > > When I connect to the vpn, I can immediately use "net use \\someserver" on > pretty much all the servers. I would expect that if I am using a browser > functionality to locate windows resources, I might have to wait a few > minutes until this worked. > > I will see if I can tdbdump the browser database files on the PDC (which > should be the master browser.) I have other machines on the network > that are DC's in their own domains, that may also try to be the master > browsers. But they all point to the same WINS server (one of the samba > BDC's) so I think this should not be an issue. Generally I find that the > use of WINS (and also making sure that the servers are listed in DNS) makes > most issues go away. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Miller [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Samba] can connect to 2 samba servers by name but to one by > IP only >
>> 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
