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

["Renato Salles" <rsalles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

I posted so many messages about this issue here and at the cipe maillist
that i became +/- bored about that.

Possibilities:

1) I give up and tell the people in this thread to use google or search
for the topic on this maillist archive,

2) I write myself a OpenVPN&iptables&samba-HowTo and send it to James to
evaluate that it "could" - at least - be consider as a "HowTo" candidate
at the OpenVPN website.

In the case of 1, i regret that sourceforge.net didn't  set up a search
facility to their maillist page:
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8453)
There is actually 1263 messages (er, 1264) to search for...

In the case of 2), any help would be very appreciated, 'cause my English
is poor (my default $LANG is brazillian). Well, i write a little in
english, much more better in french and spanish. Because English is the
default $LANG in this maillist, i do need some help.

James, i think that the job to adapt the win32 API from cipe to OpenVPN is
uselles if people don't arrive to learn how to use it. To the newbee is
even harder to find where the share fails: At the win32 TAP config, in the
 firewall or samba.

RSalles

PS: There are subscribers to this list that symple do not believe that the
network browsing function works with OpenVPN and doesn't want to beleive
me that it's working here there is 4 months already, as it had worked
before with ciped one year and half...


>
> 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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