Tom Eastep schrieb: > 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. > > 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.
Thanks Tom. I will try the WINS setting. Additionally I will install the OpenVPN server on the same machine where Samba is running. This should be easier to manage because its all in one place. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
