Help Accessing Windows Share Over VPN

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cobolsam
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Help Accessing Windows Share Over VPN

Post by cobolsam » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:33 am

Please forgive me, I have only been using OpenVPN for a couple of days. I am not sure of all the information I need to provide to receive assistance, or (probably) how to provide it.

I have Tomato VPN up and running a TUN VPN. I have 1 client which is my android phone running CM7. All the phone's traffic is successfully routed over 3g to the VPN, and I can even remote desktop in to the machines on my LAN from the phone over VPN. What I can't seem to do is get the windows share to load in any Samba app.

Can someone please help me?

cobolsam
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Re: Help Accessing Windows Share Over VPN

Post by cobolsam » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:23 am

Quick update. If I disable my windows firewall, my phone can then reach my windows share over 3g/vpn. Over wifi the phone can reach the windows share with the firewall enabled. Does anyone know what sort of exception I need to put in place to allow 3g/vpn to access the share?

cobolsam
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Re: Help Accessing Windows Share Over VPN

Post by cobolsam » Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:03 am

And I fixed it.

The exceptions for File and Sharing (SMB) were only allowing the local subnet, I changed to allow any IP for in and outbound.

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