[pptp-server] Wins Server With Multiple Workgroups

[Dougal Holmes]

That's assuming you use samba as the WINS server. In my case I use the
internal WINS server (at the far end of the VPN) as we don't even have samba
on the PoPToP box, and as that WINS server is also the browse master for the
remote network and a PDC (with trust relationships with the other domains),
browsing works well.

As it is supposed to when using a remote WINS server :-)

But it does cause some interesting side effects when someone (usually me !)
connects from a home NT network with a new domain/workgroup that the WINS
server doesn't know about (this usually takes a couple of days to flush
out.......)

Dougal Holmes (at home)
mailto:dholmes at bigpond.net.au

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Kreger" <lists at earthling.2y.net>
To: "Dougal Holmes" <dholmes at bigpond.net.au>
Cc: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Wins Server With Multiple Workgroups


> The thing is, that he is connecting over a VPN, so he can only talk to the
> wins server, and the wins server, is, normally, the master browser for
> it's workgroup, unless it was taken down, and a pdc was brought up at the
> same time, or you have a misconfigured samba install somewhere.
>
> Thus, he is only going to be able to see one workgroup, the workgroup
> he/the client computer belogs to.
>
> Justin Kreger, MCP MCSE CCNA
> jkreger at earthling.2y.net jwkreger at uncg.edu justin at wss.net
>
>