[pptp-server] Windows browsing

[Michael Barsalou]

One thing that has worked consistently for me is to add the hosts 
you are trying to browse to the remote machines lmhosts file.  
Here is an example:


192.168.1.13    server1               #PRE    #DOM:DOMMAIN
192.168.1.13    "DOMMAIN        \0x1b"  #PRE    
192.168.1.12    server2                   #PRE    #DOM:DOMAIN
192.168.1.11    server3                 #PRE    #DOM:DOMAIN

The IP address' correlate to what the machines ip addresses are 
for the local lan.  We use 192.168.1.0 network for our local lan 
behind a masqueraded firewall.

Note on the second entry there are exactly 16 characters (the 
"\0x1b" sequence is considered one character). In other words, the 
slash starts in the sixteenth space.

The #PRE and #DOM: MUST BE CAPS.  If you don't they won't 
register.

use the "nbtstat -R" command to reload the netbios cash table if 
you need to.

Read more information on Microsofts website and search for 
lmhosts or nbtstat

Hope that helps.

Mike


Michael Barsalou
barjunk at attglobal.net