[pptp-server] WIN98 BlackMagic

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mduran at bamo.com [mailto:mduran at bamo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:55 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: RE: [pptp-server] WIN98 BlackMagic
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> Thank you all for your respone.  Its much appreaciated.  I 
> don't understand what pleasure MS gets out of making there
> own networking soooo complicated....

<grin>

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> RE: The WINS server-
> I'm sure the WINS is running on the NT server.  I went back 
> to the office (as in real phyical building) to verify this by
> typing; ipconfig /all It returns the Windows NT IP Config...
> ....(blah, blah, blah.) It lists its own IP address as 192.168.1.2
> to it's ethernet adapter (3com)
> And it also shows the Primary WINS server as 192.168.1.2.

The above does NOT verify that you have the WINS service installed and
running on this NT box. The above only verifies that MS networking component
is configured to register with a WINS server at this IP address. In this
case, the same IP address.

Again... have you verified that the WINS service is running on this box.
i.e. Control Panel->Services. you should see a service called "Windows
Internet Name Service" in a "started" state.

> 
> RE: The linux box running Samba and it config to register the 
> WINS server at the required ip and stated so in the smb.conf?
> Yes.  However, I don't have the 'remote announce = 
> 000.000.000.000' line.
What would that do?

The above tells Samba what address to broadcast at. Although, Samba can
usually figure this out. 

> 
> RE: "Is the linux box running Samba registering its
> workgroup/domain association properly with the WINS
> server?"
> Yes.  And all SMB clients are registering with the WINS 
> server without any problems (just like it should be).

This is great, but means nothing if the WINS service is NOT running on your
NT box. If WINS is not running, then MS networking defaults to using
broadcasts to build the Master Browser list. This can be verified by looking
at the output from ipconfig or winipcfg and looking at the Netbios Node Type
setting. FWIW: Broadcasts do NOT span routers. i.e. Your PPTP server is a
router.