[pptp-server] delay in accessing an nt domain

[John Nitis]

I have WINS servers setup, and they are configured in the ppp options file.
How would I debug this?  Should I setup pptp to dump all of the packets?  It
seems like there's some sort of name resolution error.  Perhaps broadcasts
that need to get through the PPTP connection aren't getting through?

-----Original Message-----
From: Nico De Ranter [mailto:nico at sonycom.com]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 12:22 AM
To: Geoff Nordli
Cc: 'John Nitis'; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
Subject: RE: [pptp-server] delay in accessing an nt domain


On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Geoff Nordli wrote:

> You have wins servers setup, but are you using them in your ppp options
> file?

What that be on the server side (Linux) or on the client side (NT)?
I have exactly the same problem, even worse: when I'm browsing my homedir
from the samba-server it takes ages to show something. I'm using a 64kbit
ISDN line which is very reliable and fast for everything else I do... except
the "Microsoft Network".

Nico

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
> [mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of John Nitis
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 7:58 PM
> To: 'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'
> 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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