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Hi all, This is written in the hope that it might help someone; it took me a while to find. If you look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B135404&Product=win2000 it will tell you that the MS computer browser service may have problems working on a multihomed computer. Almost by definition you have such if you have a tap adaptor installed. Browser service is a Windows 'solution' that allows computers on a small LAN to know where the others are and communicate, and share directories (if that is enabled). Larger LANs would normally have a WINS server, or local DNS server to centralise that function, and would also be set up as domains to allow centralisation of access control lists, but for a small LAN, MS's Computer Browser Service is a decentralised alternative, and quite handy. Now mostly, with OpenVPN, you'll be using UDP; it's recommended, and as you see at http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html using TCP over TCP is a bad idea. Given that you've made that choice you will not be able to get the MS Computer Browser Service to work over your VPN, browsing doesn't work over UDP. However rather than shutting down browsing on my VPN server (which is useful for the rest of my LAN) it struck me that I could simply disable netbios over tcp/ip on the VPN adaptor, and then, hopefully, the browser service would not 'know' that my computer was multi-homed. To cut a long story short, it worked like a charm. Browsing works on my LAN, my remote clients can map LAN drives to their system with a simple script, and when they are back home browsing just works. vpn properties/tcpip properties/advanced/WINS/disable netbios over TCP/IP radio button. In fact I think the installer should disable netbios by default, leaving the user to enable it if he really wants (in a bridging configuration perhaps) Hope this helps someone. Peter ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |