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Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn & samba


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn & samba
  • From: Craig Knox <crg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:35:41 +0100

How much bandwidth does the link have?  SMB has very poor performance on
a WAN, maybe you need to adjust the TCP/IP values in the registry? ie
session timeouts etc.

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 12:34, Tarjei Bitustøyl wrote:
> This is peculiar. It works perfectly on my machine, though with a
> roadwarrior setup.
> I'm using a linux openvpn server with the samba shares, and a windows
> xp client (should be precisely the same as w2k in those regards).
> Does it work on the internal network of the samba machine?
>  
> Regards
> Tarjei
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: alex
>         To: openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 7:04 AM
>         Subject: [Openvpn-users] openvpn & samba
>         
>         Has anyone had any luck getting a windows computer to connect
>         to a linux samba share via openvpn? 
>          
>         I have a win2k machine at home and a linux machine
>         elsewhere... I have openvpn setup on both using TAP devices. 
>         I can ping from both and seem to have a functional tunnel.
>         In network neighborhood, I can 'see' the samba shares, but
>         when try to open one, it waits for a long time and says it
>         could not be found.
>          
>         I have seem partial listings of my files in Ethereal captures
>         from my windows machine.... 
>         
>         I even reinstalled windows.  Using no firewall on either
>         machine still causes this problem...
>          
>         Thanks
>          
>         -Alex

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