On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 14:34 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Rubin Bennett wrote: > > I'd hazard that the issues are related, and that there are tweaks you > > can do to the VPN that will make this more stable. Short of sending you > > to the OpenVPN lists, I'll share a couple tweaks I've found useful in > > the exact same situation: > > On the VPN server, add the lines: > > # Insert your WINS server IP here > > push "dhcp-option WINS 12.34.56.78" > > # Insert your DNS server IP here > > push "dhcp-option DNS 12.34.56.78" > > # Insert your second (if you have one) DNS server IP here > > push "dhcp-option DNS 12.34.56.79" > > # Replace with your search domain > > push "dhcp-option DOMAIN domain.tld" > > Yes, actually I already did that. That's how the laptop learns where's > the WINS server. DOMAIN, DNS and WINS are being pushed to the Windows > client already. > > The WINS server pushed to the laptop is actually the tun0 interface, > created on the server by openvpnd. But that should not be a problem, I > see in the logs how Samba actually becomes master on that interface, so > it should work - and it does, for a while, and then the workgroup > disappears. > Can you browse by IP address over the re-established VPN? Have you tried the old ipconfig /flushdns trick either before or after reconnecting the VPN?
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