[pptp-server] Working with W9X Clients

[Jose M. Sanchez]

No this is not a simple one.

Shares are published over a local lan via "Broadcast" packets.

Unfortunately PPP does not route broadcast packets over the link.

As a result your remote machines are unaware of the shares.

On way around this is to set up a WINS server, then point the remote
machines at it. This lets the WINS server collect the list of shares and
deliver the list to the non routable clients.

Samba can provide WINS services for you if your LAN does not have an NT
server on it, but you might want to set up DNS as well.

Once you've done this, make sure that the remote machines are "members" of
the same workgroup as well.

I've so far been unable to get around this latter problem. If the remote
client is not a member of the same domain, even with WINS it is unable to
see the shares... but it can connect to them by name.

-JMS
opjose at ex-pressnet.com


|-----Original Message-----
|From: pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org
|[mailto:pptp-server-admin at lists.schulte.org]On Behalf Of Michael C.
|Mitchell
|Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:17 AM
|To: Pptp-Server (E-mail)
|Subject: [pptp-server] Working with W9X Clients
|
|
|I achieve a connection OK.  The clients can map drives via IP addresses
|but not by name.  The client I am testing on is a notebook that usually is
|wired.  It has a lmhosts and hosts file with all out local bogus IP's.
|
|After logging in, dropping to a dos prompt I am able to ping by name.
|
|Is there anyway to enable share browsing and such?  I am probably missing
|something
|simple but I haven't seen anything in a FAQ or document yet :0
|
|Thanks in advance.
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