Hello samba, I have an issue with OpenVPN 2.0 and Samba 3.0.14a.
My setup consists in a routed VPN (thus server and clients are on different subnets) between a linux OpenVPN 2.0 server and some Windows 2000 VPN clients. Samba is the PDC and is a WINS server. The VPN clients work, broswing works, and I see the clients registering on the server's WINS in /var/lib/samba/wins.dat. When I connect to a share, I get connected and can use it, but after about 8 minutes of inactivity (no open files), the share gets disconnected, and when I try to use it again, Windows says it cannot access the drive. After some retries, I can connect again and the whole thing repeats from the beginning. I have tried also using PPTP (which puts me on the same subnet as the server, not on a different one) and basically it seems I am getting the same behaviour. Obviosuly the same clients, when connected directly to the server's lan, show no issues at all and work flawlessly. I don't know if PPTP lets broacasts go through or not. OpenVPN does not, since it's routed and not bridged. I assume that apart from speed (512K on WAN connections) broadcasts are the only differences between LAN and WAN set-ups. Is there something I missed with broadcasts? I assume that since I use WINS, I don't need broadcasts to make Samba work. Am I wrong? -- Fabio "Kurgan" Muzzi -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba