[pptp-server] delay in accessing an nt domain

[tmk]

how large is your network?
if the modem is a little on the slow side, or teh link is unreliable then
the actual transfer of the names of the computers on your network could take
quite a while.. i dont know that wins is 'slow-link' friendly

Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: John Nitis <john at artxinc.com>
To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 7:58 PM
Subject: [pptp-server] delay in accessing an nt domain


> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems doing anything that uses netbios over tcp/ip via my
pptp
> connection.  The client is a Windows NT WS 4.0 box with SP6a, and the
server
> is Mandrake Linux 5.0 with poptop, pptpd, and pppd.  I can login to PPTP
> just fine, but the problems begin when I try to browse the network.  I can
> eventually browse the network (I have WINS servers setup) but it's *very*
> slow to come up.  When I click on network neighborhood it just pauses for
> about a minute, and then it pops up with all of the computers on the
> network.  All standard TCP/IP communications are fine (such as telnet) -
> it's just netbios that's goofed up.
>
> As far as I can tell, this is a name resolution problem.  I have both DNS
> and WINS configured correctly - what could be causing the long delay in
> accessing netbios/smb/netbeui resources via my PPTP connection?
>
> Thank you,
>
> John Nitis
> john at artxinc.com
>
>
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