[pptp-server] PoPToP localip/remoteip DHCP Question

[David Rankin]

Thanks Robert,

I use encrypted passwords with samba already. Have patched all Win95 machines to
send encrypted and all users have Unix accounts and encrypted smbpasswd passwords.
Everything works like a champ on the lan side.

Samba is also my wins server and DHCP passes the wins information for all lan
clients. However, since pptpd uses an IP range above the lan DHCP block, I don't
know if my pptp client in getting wins resolution or not. With pptp, I come in
from the internet through my router and I have port forwarded 1723 to the pptpd
server to make it work. I will have to check to see if wins requires another port.
I am not sure how I would hardcode the wins server address for the pptp clients
because the pptpd server is behind my router. I suppose I could pass the client
the router address and if wins uses the port 1723 it would be forwarded to the
samba/wins server.

What are your thoughts - am I out in deep left field here?

David

robert wrote:

> On Sunday 11 March 2001 22:14, David Rankin wrote:
> > Robert & Christopher -- HELP!!!
> >
> > I took Christopher's advice and now I can log into my server at work and I
> > can see all of
> > the machines on my network. However, when I try to access the shares on my
> > server I get an IPC$ password error. When I try to access any of the other
> > machines I get a \\computername is not accessable. I did a tcpdump of port
> > 1723 and the following is what I received. Any ideas on what I am doing
> > wrong?
> >
> > David Rankin
> > Nacogdoches, Texas
> >
>
> I find dumps with just the ip numbers more readable, but maybe that's just me.
>
> It sounds like two separate problems.  The IPC$ problem generally is an
> encrypted/not encrypted password problem.  Depending on the client you are
> using, you may have to add "encrypt passwords = yes" to your smb.conf file
> and restart samba, or comment it out if it already there and restart samba.
> Probably the first is the fix.  This may or may not break access to the other
> machines, assuming you could access them.
>
> The second issue is probably a browsing problem.  Do you have a wins server?
> Does the poptop client know about the wins server?