[pptp-server] WINS failing over PopTop

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Kalos [mailto:ckalos at gothambroadband.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:57 AM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: RE: [pptp-server] WINS failing over PopTop
> 
> 
> 	I've managed to handle it manually, but that won't do 
> for the clients, since they grab a different IP each time.
> I can't make a simple script to work with dynamic IPs on NT,
> or so it would seem.

If I understand your response correctly, creating a domain login script
might help with adding the route manually. Also, at the PPTP server, you can
always edit the ip-up script to add any firewall rules and/or routes that
might be needed. Again, I do not understand your network architecture fully.

> 	As for WINS, there's an NT server on the LAN already, 
> which I've got full access to over the VPN,

Does this server have WINS installed and operational??????

> but I have to use the IP instead of the WINS hostname in
> the UNC path.  From what you've just mention, that may not
> be normal.
> 

No its not. If you have a properly configured WINS server on your LAN *and*
all clients/servers on that LAN are configured to register with that WINS
server... 

Then in order to get the PPTP client to use the WINS server - insure that
the PPTP servers ppp options file contains the 'ms-wins' directive that
points to the WINS servers IP address. Also, insure that the
workgroup/domain registration of the PPTP client matches that of the LAN
PC's and servers.

Steve Cowles