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Re: [Openvpn-users] Newbie question: Samba with OpenVPN and DNS names


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Newbie question: Samba with OpenVPN and DNS names
  • From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:14:13 -0600

kozlowski_s@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I went through the HOWTOs and set up OpenVPN on a SuSE Linux 9.3 Server with five Windows XP SP2 clients.
> My setup is very close to the sample and it works well. I can connect to Samba on the Linux server with \\10.x.x.1\sharename, but I cannot reach the server using \\servername\sharename. 
> 
> I could add the server name to the hosts file of the Windows XP clients, but thats not the smart solution, isn't it?
> Is there a simple solution?

The 'windows' way to resolve names on a routed network is to assign
a common WINS server to all the machines.  Samba can use WINs or
act as a server.  The standard way to resolve names is to make DNS
work and either use fully qualified domain names or add the local
domain to your search list so a bare hostname resolves to the right
IP.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@

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