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Dave wrote:
remote a.a.a.a # where a.a.a.a is remote IP
dev tap
...
We can map network drives to shares at either end without a problem but
it's a bit annoying having to know the share name beforehand.
Is there any way to be able to browse shares on each others pc without
having to run a samba or WINS server, (and preferably without one of us
being a permanent VPN server)?
Since you're in tap mode, this *should* already be supported, pretty
much. I'm guessing, that you aren't bridging the tap adapters to
ethernet. If you were doing so, it would likely resolve this issue so
long as network browsing works on your respective LANs -- but it would
have other side effects, as it would effectively put 'yall on one big
LAN segment whenever the VPN is up, thus potentially leading to clashing
DHCP servers, outbound VPN bandwidth being used for otherwise harmless
broadcast traffic, and other such badness. I don't know why network
browsing doesn't work for you, otherwise -- I don't muck with Windows
much -- but you might want to check whether the Client for Microsoft
Networks service is bound to both tap adapters; make sure the machines
are on the same workground; and all of that jazz. Using a tool like
ethereal (from www.ethereal.com) to see if you're seeing announcements
or other NetBIOS traffic on the VPN segment would likely be
enlightening, if desk-checking the Windows settings doesn't help.
That said, if you're *not* going to get this working via broadcast [ie.
if you accept a proffered suggestion wrt using the lmhosts file or
such], you might consider switching from tap to tun -- that way you're
not moving the whole ethernet frame but only the IP packet from system
to system, and should see some efficiency improvements.
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