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

Michael Day mday at wdda.com
Tue Dec 21 11:11:33 CST 1999


>Use a WINS server.  If your MickeySoft boxes are configured to use a
>WINS server, they will register themselves with it directly.  The WINS
>server will create a "browse list" which can be obtained by any
>machine (e.g., the PPTP client) without the use of broadcast.

>Three things you need to do:

>  1) Have a WINS server (see Samba's "wins server" parameter).

>  2) Configure your local Windows machines to use it.  DHCP can do
>     this for you, or you can set it manually on each machine in
>     Network Properties.  (This may not be necessary if the WINS
>     server is reachable reached via broadcast; it may collect the
>     browse list automatically.  Not sure.)

>  3) Set the "ms-wins" parameter in /etc/ppp/options to point to your
>     WINS server.  This will tell your PPTP client how to reach it.

>  4) OK, I lied about there being three things.  Play around with
>     various "workgroup" and "domain logon" settings on the PPTP
>     client until it decides it belongs to the workgroup.  I haven't
>     figured out exactly what magic combination works; it would be
>     great to nail this down and document it.

I have got network browsing working with WINS by setting the workgroup
setting to match the WINDOZE Workgroup name.
I also staticly defined the WINS Server Address
Only thing I can't do is logon to Win2000 Terminal Services, I believe I
Blue Screened the Server.





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