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VPN Newbie -- What next

Hi
I managed to make a VPN from my PC - internet - Astaro Box (PPtP)

The netwrk behind the Astaro box has a Samba Server, I would like to be able to see the shares here... How do I do that?
The samba Shares live on IP 192.168.49.2, the astaro box on 192.168.49.1, my pc has gotten the ip 192.168.49.3 using the vpn

My own IP is 192.168.0.31

How do I go on? i don't see anything in my network neighbourhood...

greetz
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0 Jeffery_Kelley over 22 years ago

Most likely you can ping the samba server now. If you setup a DNS and a NBNS or use a host file you should be able to get to it by name. Other wise try to get to everything by IP.
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0 Taz_01 over 22 years ago in reply to Jeffery_Kelley

yep.. i can ping it, but why doesn't it show up in the networkneighbourhood?
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0 Moby over 22 years ago in reply to Taz_01

I'm not a Windows expert, but as far as I know, unless you are using a WINS server, you will not see any of the internal computers on the network neighborhood of the VPN client.

Broadcasts are dropped by the firewall when they are sent down a PPTP tunnel, and that is how Network Neighborhood finds other computers when you are not using WINS. If you have a WINS server on your internal network, try configuring the VPN client to use it and you should be able to see your internal hosts.
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0 oliver.desch over 22 years ago in reply to Moby

afaik Samba can act as WINS server

read you
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to oliver.desch

Yes, you need WINS going.
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0 Taz_01 over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

WINS is running on samba, my pc is registered.
Using net use I can use the shares, but I don't see anything in my browser... Dmain names differ of course...
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0 Taz_01 over 22 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

WINS is running on samba, my pc is registered.
Using net use I can use the shares, but I don't see anything in my browser... Dmain names differ of course...
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0 Simon Shaw over 22 years ago in reply to Taz_01

Does your browser master also look up the WINS list ?
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