[pptp-server] PPTP and SMB

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

The problem is that Samba does a reverse lookup on the client. If
it can't resolve the ip address to a hostname, then it won't
allow it to access the shares. What I did to get around this was
assign all of the remote IP addresses hostnames in my internal
DNS. I have remote1.mycompany.com through
remote128.mycompany.com. This works for NFS, too.

Kenny

Daniel Knighten wrote:
> 
> I am having an odd problem using PoPToP.  I have a private network with
> an NT4SP5 Primary Domain controller.  I have a few Debian 2.1 Linux
> boxes providing file and print sharing to a bunch of Win98, NT4, and
> Win2K boxes.  Samba is configured on the Linux boxes to slave
> authentication to the Domain controller using the security = domain
> option.  Everybody inside the private network is using MS-encrypted
> passwords.  I then setup an Slackware Linux 7.1 machine with PoPToP and
> MS-CHAPV2 authentication on our T1 to the Internet and then setup a
> Win2K and Win98 box outside the firewall to test it.  I can connect just
> fine and get get around the internal network.  I can even browse and
> access shares served by our Windows based machines, but when I try and
> access SMB shares on a Unix machine the password authentication fails.
> I have tried this with and without encrypted passwords.
> 
> Any help, or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
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