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Sykus
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 Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 6:22 pm Post subject: gentoo, apache, samba and VPN love-in |
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| one of my gentoo boxes is connected to the internal company win2k based network. it broadcasts fine to everyone except people connected from home/overseas via VPN. do i need to change something in samba, or add something else? |
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Sykus
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| Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| i recompiled the kernel to have ppp support, then installed pptpclient, but still nothing..... |
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Sykus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| nobody can help with this? |
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Can you ping boxen on the other end? Are you set to send broadcasts across your VPN link? If you can't get broadcasts to the client, you'd need a WINS server that the clients can ask to do the name resolution.
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Sykus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| my smb.conf is set to go to the WINS server we have going here, which works for other boxes across the VPN. how do i set my samba to broadcast across as well? |
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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Is your Samba VPNing in or is it on the network that is being VPNed into?
And why do you want to broadcast in?
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Sykus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| my samba is in the internal network, it broadcasts internally to our dept, and i want it to broadcast to our overseas branch when they vpn to the network, but it does not. |
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Is it registering with the WINS server? Are all the clients pointed to the same WINS server? (If not, are they set to replicate?)
Clients on the other end can refer to you by IP address, correct?
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Sykus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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when i remote desktoped home, and vpn'd back, it still didn't work. i pinged the machine name, and it resolved, but no ping results. i then pinged the IP, and no results. i then pinged a different box, and it reslolved and pinged correctly. i don't really know how the rest of the network is configured, i'm waiting to hear back from some people.
there is a secondary wins server, do i just put a comma and the next server's ip after it? |
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Sykus wrote: | | there is a secondary wins server, do i just put a comma and the next server's ip after it? |
I don't think you can do that, but I'm not certain. man smb.conf:
| Code: | wins server (G)
This specifies the IP address (or DNS name: IP
address for preference) of the WINS server that
nmbd(8)should register with. If you have a WINS
server on your network then you should set this to
the WINS server's IP.
You should point this at your WINS server if you
have a multi-subnetted network.
NOTE. You need to set up Samba to point to a WINS
server if you have multiple subnets and wish cross-
subnet browsing to work correctly.
See the documentation file BROWSING.txt in the
docs/ directory of your Samba source distribution.
Default: not enabled
Example: wins server = 192.9.200.1 |
| Sykus wrote: | | i then pinged the IP, and no results. i then pinged a different box, and it reslolved and pinged correctly. |
The WINS stuff is just name resolution; if that works fine, we can forget about it.
Can you connect to any services on your Samba box? (ssh?) Can you ping the Samba box from others on the same network (i.e. not across the VPN)?
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Sykus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| delta407 wrote: | The WINS stuff is just name resolution; if that works fine, we can forget about it.
Can you connect to any services on your Samba box? (ssh?) Can you ping the Samba box from others on the same network (i.e. not across the VPN)? |
i only have http set up on here, and it works fine on the same network. |
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delta407
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm...
Hmmm.....
Yell at your VPN admin. 
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Sykus
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| hehe, will do thanks for trying though |
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