[pptp-server] Browsing and name resolution

[Nick Rout]

I am sorry if these points have been covered before, but here goes:

I am using redhat 7.0 with the pptpd vers 1.0.0 rpm installed from the 
powertools cd. This is on my office network, which is on an adsl line. I 
have samba running on that machine and on another machine at the office. 
One samba machine is set up as a WINS server (but it is the other machine, 
not the pptpd server). The other machines at work are all win 95B.

At home I have a win 98 (original not SE) connecting to the net through a 
linux nat box - dialup.

I can get a connection through to the office network. I have set the ip 
address on both ends of the tunnel on the same subnet as the office 
machines, I can ping all the office machines (linux and windows). I have 
the /etc/ppp/options setup on the pptpd machine to hand out the address of 
the wins server, and i see it set in winipcfg on the home machine. I can 
even seem to ping the office machines by netbios name from home. I can 
connect via the \\officemachine\share mechanism. However I cannot see the 
office machines in network neighbourhood. Well I can sometimes, but not 
often, and very unreliably. The workgroup name is set the same at both 
ends.

Short question is then: how do I get network neighbourhood working 
properly? Should I move the wins service onto the same machine as the pptpd 
server? Should I put a "browse list = yes  " into one of my samba servers, 
if so which one (or both?). should install dun40 and what are its 
implications?

I have read the howto by Phil Van Baren.

Thanks.