Network Neighborhood browsing (was Re: [pptp-server] Connected, but not browsing.)

[Matthew Ramsay]

Gday All,

I'm keen to resolve the issue of Network Neighborhood browsing with a poptop server once and for all.
I've seen this thread everynow and then.. but have ignored it as it never bothered me.. I now have some time to spare to hack something together to solve it...

Here is what I think needs being written to solve the problem.. (I may be completey wrong.. i'm looking for comments)

1. the network neighborhood works via NETBIOS over TCP/IP.. It broadcast these packets to the network.

Q. will these packets make it down the VPN tunnel to the poptop server? My initial thoughts are *no*. I will do some tests on this in a few days.

2. The linux poptop server won't send these broadcast packets over the ppp link.. so we will have to send them manually. 

Ahh.. I don't know enough about it yet. I'm looking for lots of input. If I get a good idea of what needs to be done I'll sit down and hack it together.

Or is there an easier solution.

Cheers,
Matt.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Kendall 
  To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 7:46 PM
  Subject: [pptp-server] Connected, but not browsing.


  Hi all,
  I have configured a linux masq firewall and PPTP server as below.
   
  linux firewall is running 2.2.12 with ip_masq_vpn-2.2.11.patch installed.
  I am forwarding connections on 1723 to the pptp server and have
  IP_MASQUERADE_PPTP in the kernel and so my GRE protocol is being
  masq'd as well.

  I have 2.2.5 with ppp-2.3.10 and the ppp-2.3.10-openssl-norc4-mppe patch
  and mppe-stateless patches installed.

  Ok, heres my problem.  I can connect, using Win-2K RC2, to the pptp server
  from outside the firewall.  Once this is done, I can connect to an intranet
  webserver inside the firewall and I can ping and telnet to anything inside, but
  for the life of me I cannot browse the network!  Please, what am I doing wrong?

  Cheers,
  Paul.
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