joesabido I tried searching for an answer but I couldn't find any, mostly because I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I have a basic setup, with a server and 3 clients (CNAMES = client_1, client_2, client_3). I want to let OVPN manage the IP's with its internal DHCP (as opposed to static IPs), but I want the server to push the client names (the common names) to the clients, so they can ping/see each other without having to add IP addresses to the hosts file of the clients, which would be pointless anyway because their IP's could be changing and I'd have to update them every time a new client connects to the VPN. Is this possible? I'm using a windows platform. Thanks!
janjust normally you'd set up a DNS or WINS server to handle name queries; you *can* push a DNS or WINS IP to the clients, not a set of CNAMES for the connected clients.
joesabido Thank you for your reply. So, if I were able to install a WINS on my OVPN server, I could push that to the clients and then I could refer to them (and each other) using their NetBios name?
janjust yup, that's the general idea 🙂 you could use either Samba (the nmbd part) on Linux or set up a WINS server on Windows Server. For Samba it is helpful to use Domain master = yes in order to get network neighborhood browsing to work.
joesabido Well, my server and all my clients run Win7, and WINS server only runs in Windows Server, so I guess I'll have to add another VPN client running Ubuntu and configure Samba to act as a WINS. VPN Server: 10.10.1.1 Client_1: 10.10.1.2 Client_2: 10.10.1.3 Client_3: 10.10.1.4 WINS Server: 10.10.1.250 Then push the WINS option 10.10.1.250 to the clients. Does that sound logical to you? Thank you for your time!
