On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:41 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Rubin Bennett wrote: > >> > > Can you browse by IP address over the re-established VPN? > > I can even browse by \\name > It's just that the Network window is empty, and when that happens, the > system cannot access a printer shared by the WINS server. > > > Have you > > tried the old ipconfig /flushdns trick either before or after > > reconnecting the VPN? > > Doesn't make any difference. > > To recap: Samba as a WINS server, there's a Vista client that sometimes > loses the Network Neighborhood. It's connected over VPN, but the VPN > tunnel itself is solid, that's not the problem. The other end of the > tunnel is the WINS server which is also an OpenVPN server. > > Sometimes it works fine though, it sees the Network just fine, it can > print, etc. Some other times nothing works. I don't understand what's > going on. > > Using samba-3.0.25b on CentOS 5.1 64bit > I assume you can't get to the printer properties or the print server by UNC? I can say that I definitely haven't seen this, but at the same time, I don't know that the majority of my clients who use a Vista/ OpenVPN/ Samba combination would necessarily notice if they couldn't print over the VPN.
I'll do some checking on my end to see if I can replicate the behavior anywhere, but I honestly don't know where to go from here... Sporadic Windows issues give me a consistent headache :) > -- > Florin Andrei > > http://florin.myip.org/ -- Rubin Bennett rbTechnologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thatitguy.com (802)223-4448 "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
