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You can use a hosts file (LMHosts) if you need to be able to browse by name (if you can't get name resolution to work otherwise.) Chris Breish -----Original Message----- From: Brian [mailto:belstsrv at nauticom dot net] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:17 PM To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Need to get NetBEUI working over a PPTP tunnel (w2k <-> m0n0wall 1.11) Chris Buechler wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:21:49 +0100, Peter Guhl <pgnews at siconline dot ch> wrote: > >>Well, a customer wants to work from home during christmas holidays. We >>have got a m0n0wall acting as PPTP-Server placing it's clients in the >>same IP-range as the Server (samba). Unfortunately Windows 2000's VPN >>client tells me that it can't bind NetBEUI to the VPN because it can't >>negotiate the PPP control protocol (rough translation of the German >>error message). The checkbox to use NetBIOS over TCP/IP doesn't exist in >>the advanced configuration (WINS-tab) of the TCP/IP-Properties. >> >>Of course the Server is not visible in the Network neighbourhood (not >>really surprising after all...). >> >>Do you know how I can make that work? What's faster - trying to make >>NetBEUI work or switch to something like NFS? >> > > > Eww, why NetBEUI? I'm hoping you don't actually use that protocol and > are misunderstanding its necessity. Samba over TCP/IP should work > fine. Network neighborhood doesn't work (reliably, if at all) over > PPTP because broadcasts don't traverse the connection. You should be > able to map drives or pull up \\servername or \\IP.address from Start, > Run without modifying anything, assuming your Samba box works over > TCP/IP. > > -Chris That is exactly what I do. I just have a simple .bat file that I run once I connect to my company VPN. It does all the drive mapping for me, as if I were at the office logging in locally. From there, I can access all the usual things without any issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |