[pptp-server] VPN for WinBlows-

[Jose M. Sanchez]

|-----Original Message-----
|From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
|[mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of Samuel
|Gonzalez, Jr.
|Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 6:45 PM
|To: opjose at ex-pressnet.com
|Cc: Tom Warfield; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
|Subject: Re: [pptp-server] VPN for WinBlows-
|
|
|Yeah I will agree that browsing is a "privilege" not a right.  I
|have made it
|work with VPND, NT and Samba across 3 different subnets,
|workgroups, or domains
|if you will. I am implying that PPTP would do the same thing as
|VPND and simply
|provide a virtual pipe for connecting the networks together.  My experience
|with  PPTP says that it will (the limited amout that it is).

I've played with this a bit and the only time I'm able to get the remote to
read the browse list if it becomes a member on the host domain.

This is a little strange, as under normal circumstances the foreign host
does display the other workgroups... under PoPToP however it does not.

Syncronizing WINS servers thru a VPN pipe could solve this, but it's a
workaround to a problem. Not really a fix...


| I used two
|different wins servers on different subnets and had all clients use them.
|Played around with browse master and domain master settings on my
|Linux boxes.

Yeah this would work fine...

|I didn't just make up how to do it though, I read John D. Blair's
|"Integrating Unix and Windows."  I learned more about windows networking in
|that book than in any mcse class.

Yes and excellent book. Ironic that it's sometimes easier to learn Microsoft
Tech via Linux... heh...

|In any case, I believe I could make it work
|with PPTP if
|someone paid me to.  Don't get me wrong, it may but will most
|likely not be a
|walk in and walk out job, heck I sold the project described up
|above before I
|knew how to do it.  Then again I could just be lucky......
|

Ah... ok the impression I had was that you had some magical fix to the
PoPToP/ppp code that took care of browsing.

Thanks.

-JMS