Re: [Openvpn-users] new to openVPN

[Roland_Lepper@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Configuring a Wins server made me to see all othermachine behind the VPN.

I still have the problem that users can't edit files because of the domain permissions on the files.

Please advise.

Thanks in advance

Best Regards,
Roland de Lepper
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                      Christoph Haas                                                                                                                                                  
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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:38, Roland_Lepper@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I recently installed OpenVPN on a Suse machine.
> The main purpose is to connect laptop users via VPN to our Terminal
> Server. The laptops are using WindowsXP as their OS and installed
> OpenVPNGui on it. I configured the OpenVPN server for Tun.
>
> I can create the tunnel between the laptop and the VPN machine and the
> Terminal server. I can ping the OpenVPN machine, the Terminal Server as
> also other machine in my LAN from a VPN session.
> I can make a secure RDP connection.
> This is what I first wanted, but I want more.
>
> So far so good, but....
> I've read that I can see the other machines (eg fileserver on Windows)
> in my network places. The problem is that I can't.

IMHO Windows hosts exchange information about file shares through
broadcasts. So since you are using a routing instance in between (openvpn)
you don't get the broadcasts on the other side of the tunnel.

Either you use tap instead of tun (I don't like that) or you access the
shares by IP address (Start/Run/"\\10.0.0.1\c$" or something like that).

> After the connection is made, a laptop user can't edit any files,
> because of the domain permissions.

I'm not sure how well it works if you are using a real login domain.
The broadcast issue applies at least when you use a "wild" Windows
network.

Perhaps some more Windows-affine admins have more valuable hints.

Kindly
 Christoph
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