[pptp-server] WIN98 BlackMagic

[George Vieira]

OK.. even though you can ping but have you checked what IP you are pinging
as? Can you telnet to a Unix machine other than the PPTPD server and finger
yourself to see what IP the LAN think you are as an IP??

The reason is that I want to make sure your not appearing as a masqueraded
IP, that's all.

Another setup you can do is route the 2 networks rather than proxyarp them
together.. that will keep the complications local and makes things a bit
easier especially if they are both Linux pptp servers (adding routes via
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local is easy)


reply to pptp-server at lists.schulte.org for the list.

thanks,
George Vieira


-----Original Message-----
From: mduran at bamo.com [mailto:mduran at bamo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 3:28 AM
To: George Vieira
Subject: RE: [pptp-server] WIN98 BlackMagic


George,
Thank you for your response.  I'm replying directly to you email address as
I don't know how to reply to the list...

My samba box isn't running WINS.  I have a separate NT server box that is.
When I get logged onto my remote LAN via PPTP, I can ping it, telnet, so
almost everything to it, except map a !@#$#% drive letter to it.
I haven't tried including the WINS ip address into the pptpd options file
however.  I will today.

I tried the IP address as you suggested but I get the same Windows error
message.

Thanks again,
Michael

>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Vieira [mailto:GeorgeV at citadelcomputer.com.au]
>Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:36 PM
>To: 'mduran at bamo.com'; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
>Subject: RE: [pptp-server] WIN98 BlackMagic
>
>
>If you try the IP instead of the name it should work. If you use WINS on
>your samba box and get your dial up to load the WINS server using:
>
>ms-wins ip.ad.dr.es
>
>in your pptpd options file. This should help resolve the machines name to
>IP.
>
>
>thanks,
>George Vieira
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mduran at bamo.com [mailto:mduran at bamo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:41 AM
>To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
>Subject: [pptp-server] WIN98 BlackMagic
>
>
>
>Hello,
>We recently established a VPN server which is running Linux.  My WIN98
>machine can log-on via the VPN DialUp adapter without any problems.  Once
>I'm on the intneral network, I can ping various machines including our file
>server with which is running Linux with Samba.  My problem is that when I
>try to map a drive to the fileserver with a UNC path
>(\\pcname\fileservername) Windows returns the message; "the computer or
>sharename could not be found. Make sure you typed it in correctly and try
>again" .  I've double checked the name and I know it is typed in correctly.
> I must be a Windows thing, only I can't figure out the MS black magic of
>networking.
>
>I have installed the latest Win98 VPN adapter(s), running 128 bit security,
>the VPN server is doing port forwarding; everything checks out server side.
>
>Why won't Win98 allow me to map a drive on the internal network?...
>any help, recommdations, tips or otherwise will br GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
>
>Thank you,
>-Michael
>
>
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