[pptp-server] PoPToP localip/remoteip DHCP Question

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rankin [mailto:drankin at cox-internet.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 8:49 PM
> To: robert; pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: Re: [pptp-server] PoPToP localip/remoteip DHCP Question
> 
> 
> 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.

On Win9x clients... use "winipcfg" to verify if the WINS server address has
been properly set after the PPTP tunnel has been established. On NT/W2K
clients... use "ipconfig /all" Also, the netbios node type (of the client)
should indicate "hybrid" instead of "broadcast" when a using a WINS server.