[pptp-server] Still need help with PoPToP/SaMBa

Carey Jung carey at itfreedom.com
Tue Oct 12 06:41:07 CDT 1999


Jonathan,

Have you added 192.168.X+1. to your 'hosts allow' settings in smb.conf?

Carey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
> [mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Finnecy
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 6:52 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: [pptp-server] Still need help with PoPToP/SaMBa
> 
> 
> Well, I first voiced this problem a few weeks ago, and only two people 
> responded at all (and nothing that worked).  My question now is, 
> has anyone 
> gotten SaMBa to work over a PPTP connection?  Here is my setup:
> 
> RedHat/          Firewall                            Laptop
> SaMBa
> 
> -----		   -----                               -----
> |   |-------------|   |-------{Internet}----{ISP}-----|   |
> |   |             |   |                               |   |
> -----             -----                               -----
> eth0		eth0				      DIAL-UP IP (A.B.C.D)
> 192.168.X.2	192.168.X.1
> 
> 			G.H.I.J
> 			eth1
> 
> I have PoPToP v1.0.0 running on the firewall.  I am using Kernel 
> 2.2.5-15, 
> PPPd v2.3.7.
> 
> I have DUN1.3 upgrade on the laptop running under Win95.
> 
> I make a dial-up connection to my ISP (in this case Earthlink).  
> After that 
> I make the VPN connection to G.H.I.J on the firewall.  This works 
> great.  I 
> give my laptop the address 192.168.(X+1).101.
> After this I can ping the Linux/samba server at 192.168.X.2 and 
> it can ping 
> me, but it refuses to attempt to log on to the network (and 
> consequently I 
> can access no resources).  When trying to use any network-related 
> commands 
> (e.g. "net view \\server") I get an error saying "You must log on to the 
> network to perform this operation."
> 
> FYI...I can dial in to another server inside the firewall over a 
> direct PPP 
> link and access SaMBa resources no problem using the same IP I am 
> giving to 
> the VPN client.
> 
> I am desperate here.  TCP/IP is working over this VPN link (telnet, ftp, 
> etc), but my machine refuses to acknowledge the presence of a SaMBa 
> server.  (Remote announce has been configured for the "VPN network" - I 
> even tried restarting the samba process after the VPN tunnel was created 
> with no luck.)  I have log files, tcpdumps, configuration listings, etc. 
> but I get the feeling that I'm going down a dead-end.  I would 
> love to hear 
> from anyone who has made this work, or anyone who can help me 
> better debug 
> it...
> 
> Help!
> 
> -Jon
> 
> 
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