pmibus
I have a win7 PC client connecting to a win7 PC server using an openvpn tunnel. I have iis running on the server and I want to use the server's netbios name (or a dns name) to hit web pages on it from the client. I can hit them using the server's ip address, but not the server's name. I expect the use of tun is stopping the netbios broadcasts. I have tried pushing the server's ip to the client as a DNS server dhcp option, - no good. .... I guess because win7 does not have a DNS service installed. Short of putting entries into the client's hosts file, is there some other way to do this? Can I push a dns entry eg hostname :: ip to the client?
maikcat
some things to keep in mind,
tun operates at layer3 , meaning that broadcasts/multicasts DONT go through
name resolving requires name resolving service, there are 2 choices: DNS ,WINS
WINS is out of the box, simply enable it to your server , you DO have to push
it as an option to your clients though
DNS requires some knowledge of how to do what , also you must push it to your clients
changing hosts file is totally manually operation and hard to maintain...
Michael.
pmibus
Thanks for your advice. I tried to get WINS working, but as the "server" is not a "server" it was not actually running a WINS server and MS don't provide an install option for W7. However I installed Dual DHCP DNS Server on my "server" and pushed it as the DNS server and all is working fine now.
