Openvpn should work this issue. ----------------------------------------------- EDV Daniel Müller
Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: [email protected] Internet: www.tropenklinik.de ----------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Gaiseric Vandal Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. März 2011 20:44 An: Samba Betreff: [Samba] Samba WINS issues over VPN I am running Samba 3.4.8 as a PDC on Solaris 10. I recently made this the WINS master- previously the BDC (Samba 3.0.37 on another Solaris 10 server.) I also use Sonicwall ipsec VPN for remote access (Windows XP clients.) The sonicwall client creates a virtual NIC on the client so that the client can have an IP address directly on the company LAN (ie. the same LAN as the samba servers.) I can, via dhcp, assign the WINS server IP to the sonicwall clients. All ports should be open through the firewall between the sonicwall client NIC and the corporate LAN. VPN clients can map network drives to windows or samba servers over the VPN. NetBIOS broadcasts may be blocked. It appears to that WINS functionality does not work over VPN. There are two pieces of evidence: 1. No Wins.dat registration over VPN. On the WINS server, I can view look at the wins.dat file to see which machines registered with the wins server. If I connect from an XP laptop over the VPN, I do not see the machine in wins.dat. (It does get added to browse.dat.) 2. NBlookup fails over VPN. Microsoft provides a tool called "nblookup" for doing NetBios name lookups by querying a name server. You can optionally specify the WINS server if the client is not configured to use one, or it you want to query a different WINS server. e.g nblookup SOMEMACHINE nblookup -s IP_OF_WINS_SERVER SOMEMACHINE http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830578 If the XP laptop is connected directly to the corporate LAN, nblookup works fine. If the XP laptop is connected via VPN, then nblookup fails, even if I specify the wins server IP address. I tried this with both the current WINS server as well as the old WINS server (prior to the cutover.) I would appreciate advice. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
