Windows file shares access through routed VPN
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:20 pm
Hi everyone.
It says here in the header of this forum, that for Windows file sharing access it is better to use TUN with WINS server.
Now I haven't found any posts about what exactly is needed to accomplish that.
I have a working VPN routed server, connecting my office LAN (192.168.0.0/27) to the VPN (10.0.0.0/24).
When I connect a remote client to the server, I can generally see the LAN, but I can't PING every machine there.
I can ping my 2 wifi routers NICs, then also one Windows 7 machine. Other machines (run Vista) don't respond to pings from the remote client. However, nmap from that client works fine and shows these machines OK.
From within the LAN itself every machine can be pinged OK.
What could be the matter with pings? Is it a Vista security feature to not respond to NATed pings?
And most importantly: what needs to be done to accomplish this Windows file sharing through routed VPN using WINS?
I have enabled WINS on my SAMBA server, which is also VPN server connecting both networks.
Here is [global] part of my smb.conf:
Of course, $MYWORKGROP is the name used by all the Windows machines on the LAN.
What else needs to be done?
Thanks for any help.
Kostya
It says here in the header of this forum, that for Windows file sharing access it is better to use TUN with WINS server.
Now I haven't found any posts about what exactly is needed to accomplish that.
I have a working VPN routed server, connecting my office LAN (192.168.0.0/27) to the VPN (10.0.0.0/24).
When I connect a remote client to the server, I can generally see the LAN, but I can't PING every machine there.
I can ping my 2 wifi routers NICs, then also one Windows 7 machine. Other machines (run Vista) don't respond to pings from the remote client. However, nmap from that client works fine and shows these machines OK.
From within the LAN itself every machine can be pinged OK.
What could be the matter with pings? Is it a Vista security feature to not respond to NATed pings?
And most importantly: what needs to be done to accomplish this Windows file sharing through routed VPN using WINS?
I have enabled WINS on my SAMBA server, which is also VPN server connecting both networks.
Here is [global] part of my smb.conf:
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[global]
workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server Version %v
netbios name = SAMBA
interfaces = lo eth0 tun0 192.168.0.0/27 10.0.0.0/24
# log files split per-machine:
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
# maximum size of 50KB per log file, then rotate:
max log size = 50
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
local master = no
os level = 33
preferred master = yes
wins support = yes
dns proxy = yesWhat else needs to be done?
Thanks for any help.
Kostya