Tom Eastep wrote:

> 
> I think you are taking the wrong approach here; I would be astonished if you
> could ever make that work.
> 
> Rather what you want to do is:
> 
> a) Run a WINS server or PDC in your local network; Samba configured as a
> WINS server works file for this and you can ever run it on the local network.

I meant to say that you can even run it on the Firewall (which is what I do).

> 
> b) In your OpenVPN server configuration, push the --dhcp-option WINS setting
> to your windows clients. They can then use the wins server.
> 
> c) Be sure to push a route to your local network to your clients (you should
> be doing that anyway).
> 
> As an alternative, you could also switch from your current routed OpenVPN
> configuration to a bridged one -- that would allow M$ networking to work
> transparently between your OpenVPN clients and your local network.

-Tom
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