Re: [Samba] browsing across subnets/vpn
At 4:40 PM +0800 14/4/10, David Adam wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, David Cake wrote: I am setting up a client with vpn to access a samba share. The samba server (which is both file and WINS server) is also the vpn machine, so nothing too complicated as far as routing goes, and the vpn stuff (openvpn stuff) all seems to work fine, client can manually log into shares by specifying the name and vpn interface address of the share. I am using layer three bridging (IP over a tun interface), not layer two (ethernet over a tap interface) But what I would need to do to allow clients to browse shares on this one machine. Is there a way to configure the Windows client (and samba if necessary) to allow browsing of shares, without switching everything over to ethernet bridging (which seems a lot to do do for simple task). I assume this is, at heart, a fairly simple browsing across subnets question. Please forgive my cluelessness. I think the instructions at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#DMB will solve your problem - I assume you are not using a domain? Anyway, set your VPN server up to be the domain master browser and you should be laughing. I have set my VPN up to be the domain master browser, it still does not appear to be working. If you are using a VPN configuration interface that lets you hand out options as well as addresses, you might consider running a WINS server as well. I am running a wins server, and I am pushing the WINS server details via the VPN (successfully as far as I can tell). Any suggestions for how to work out what is going wrong here? Regards David -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] browsing across subnets/vpn
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, David Cake wrote: At 4:40 PM +0800 14/4/10, David Adam wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, David Cake wrote: I am setting up a client with vpn to access a samba share. The samba server (which is both file and WINS server) is also the vpn machine, so nothing too complicated as far as routing goes, and the vpn stuff (openvpn stuff) all seems to work fine, client can manually log into shares by specifying the name and vpn interface address of the share. I am using layer three bridging (IP over a tun interface), not layer two (ethernet over a tap interface) But what I would need to do to allow clients to browse shares on this one machine. Is there a way to configure the Windows client (and samba if necessary) to allow browsing of shares, without switching everything over to ethernet bridging (which seems a lot to do do for simple task). I assume this is, at heart, a fairly simple browsing across subnets question. Please forgive my cluelessness. I think the instructions at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#DMB will solve your problem - I assume you are not using a domain? Anyway, set your VPN server up to be the domain master browser and you should be laughing. I have set my VPN up to be the domain master browser, it still does not appear to be working. If you are using a VPN configuration interface that lets you hand out options as well as addresses, you might consider running a WINS server as well. I am running a wins server, and I am pushing the WINS server details via the VPN (successfully as far as I can tell). Any suggestions for how to work out what is going wrong here? Are you able to access the Samba shares by IP address (\\ip.add.re.ss\sharename)? If not, this may indicate a lower-level networking problem. Another thing to make sure you have checked is your firewall rules for VPN clients. I'd start with wireshark/tcpdump, turning the logging up on nmbd, and/or using strace on the nmbd process. You can use nbtstat on Windows and nmblookup on Linux to force name queries - http://toasterz.com/node/27 has been a useful reference for me. David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] browsing across subnets/vpn
I am setting up a client with vpn to access a samba share. The samba server (which is both file and WINS server) is also the vpn machine, so nothing too complicated as far as routing goes, and the vpn stuff (openvpn stuff) all seems to work fine, client can manually log into shares by specifying the name and vpn interface address of the share. I am using layer three bridging (IP over a tun interface), not layer two (ethernet over a tap interface) But what I would need to do to allow clients to browse shares on this one machine. Is there a way to configure the Windows client (and samba if necessary) to allow browsing of shares, without switching everything over to ethernet bridging (which seems a lot to do do for simple task). I assume this is, at heart, a fairly simple browsing across subnets question. Please forgive my cluelessness. Regards David -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] browsing across subnets/vpn
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, David Cake wrote: I am setting up a client with vpn to access a samba share. The samba server (which is both file and WINS server) is also the vpn machine, so nothing too complicated as far as routing goes, and the vpn stuff (openvpn stuff) all seems to work fine, client can manually log into shares by specifying the name and vpn interface address of the share. I am using layer three bridging (IP over a tun interface), not layer two (ethernet over a tap interface) But what I would need to do to allow clients to browse shares on this one machine. Is there a way to configure the Windows client (and samba if necessary) to allow browsing of shares, without switching everything over to ethernet bridging (which seems a lot to do do for simple task). I assume this is, at heart, a fairly simple browsing across subnets question. Please forgive my cluelessness. I think the instructions at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#DMB will solve your problem - I assume you are not using a domain? Anyway, set your VPN server up to be the domain master browser and you should be laughing. If you are using a VPN configuration interface that lets you hand out options as well as addresses, you might consider running a WINS server as well. David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
