[Openvpn-users] windows/samba issues (filesharing)

[Mark (Help Desk Specialist) <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I have seen several posts on this, but no "real" solutions.

The gateway server on the network is FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE, running Samba 
2.2.7.

I am running OpenVPN 1.5.0 with Samba 2.2.7 on a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE 
system as my main server.
I am running OpenVPN 1.5.0 on a Win2K machine as the client 
(single-client)

I have managed to open the VPN tunnel with no difficulties; routing is 
not an issue, either.  I can ping across the tunnel, and I can use SSH 
to other computers on the FreeBSD ("HOME") network (using their 
internal IP addressses).  In addition, I can view the webservers and 
services running on various machines on the HOME network. (Webmin, 
Apache, etcetera).

The Win2K machine is not behind anything -- it is connected directly to 
the internet and has a static IP address (205.201.57.xxx)
The FreeBSD machine is the gateway to the internet; it has an external 
(fixed) address (205.201.9.xxx) and an internal network (172.22.1.0/24)

Samba doesn't seem to be able to cross the tunnel, though.  Samba 
fileshares are not browseable (from my Win2K client); in addition, I 
cannot connect to the Samba shares directly by using the ipaddress & 
sharename (i.e. "\\172.22.1.1\share").

The firewall does not seem to be the issue, as I opened it up (i.e. 
"allow all from any to any") completely in order to remove this 
possibility.

Any ideas or help would be most appreciated.

I haven't chosen to include the options files, as (other than Samba) 
there do not seem to be any other issues.

Possibilities considered:

using IPFW "tee" command to divert appropriate ports to the tap device 
(the IPFW man page sections don't help much on this; I haven't tried it 
because I'm still figuring out the "tee" command)

setting Samba to listen on the TAP interface.  [tried that, didn't 
interfere with anything, but didn't work, either]

setting Samba to listen to the TAP subnet (10.4.0.0/24) [tried, didn't 
interfere, but also didn't work, either]

Any help would be most appreciated.

Mark J. Nernberg


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