I can't finde server by name, only by IP (Windows 8)

Daimroc

I have a computer in my lan that I name MyServer and I want to connect to the server outside my lan. I configurate the client OpenVPN and I can connect to the server.

In the server I have a shared folder. In my client computer, I try to add a new network folder, in the wizzard I try to find this folder in this way: "\\MyServer\d". owever I can't find it. If I use this way "\\10.0.8.1\d" then I can find the folder.

the problem with this is that if I connect the client computer directly in my lan, the IP is not 10.0.8.6, but 192.168.1.x so I need to add a new shared folder. In this case I can use the way "\\MyServer\d".

I would like to connect with the name of the server because I would like to install a database and it's better to use the server name instead the IP, more if the IP change if I connect into the lan or ouside the lan.

Why can't I use the name of the server when I connect through my OpenVPN?

Server config:

port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
dev-node OpenVPN
server 10.0.8.0 255.255.255.0

ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh2048.pem
tls-auth ta-hmac.key 0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt

cipher AES-256-CBC

push "route-metric 512"
push "route 10.0.8.1 255.255.255.252"

push "redirect-gateway def1"
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.8.1"

keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3

Cient configuration file

client
dev tun
dev-node TunnelTap
proto udp
remote myServer.com 1194


resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun

ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
tls-auth ta-hmac.key 1
ns-cert-type server

cipher AES-256-CBC

comp-lzo
verb 4
explicit-exit-notify 2
ping 10
ping-restart 60

route-method exe
route-delay 2

Thank so much.

brendan

you are pushing a dns server IP of 10.0.8.1. is there a dns instance running on that box? is that dns instance listening on the interface connected to the 10.0.8 network? is that dns instance allowing queries from the 10.0.8 network?

Daimroc

Could you detail all that?

I really don't know so much about nets and if I understand what you say that if I have a dns running in that box. What I have is a DNS service of windows running in the computer that is running the OpenVPN server.

How can I check if I am running an instance of the DNS in the box? and how can I configure this instand to listen a specific interface? And how I can configure to allow queries from the 10.0.8.0 network?

Thanks so much.

brendan

if you are asking those questions, then you are not running a DNS server. when on your LAN, you are able to resolve names because NetBIOS name resolution is working. across the OpenVPN tunnel, this will not work unless you run TAP mode, which may not be necessary. running a WINS server instance will allow your NetBIOS resolution to work over the TUN mode you have configured now. setting up and administering a WINS server is outside the scope of this board and an exercise left to the user.