Connecting to Windows Network via VPN

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 03:15, Tim wrote:
> > 
> > The only reason I made reference to NetBIOS not necessarily being passed
> > over a VPN tunnel is that most of the appliances I have worked with have
> > a setting that can be used to propagate NetBIOS over a VPN tunnel.  I am
> > certainly not trying to assert anything other than I have seen
> > situations where it is not automatically configured by default.
> 
> WINS is supposed to be Microsoft's answer to dealing with machine names
> and IPs across subnets.  Perhaps the poster needs a WINS server between
> both sides of the connections to handle name resolution?  They could
> play with lmhosts file, but that's only useful for static addresses.

You can configure samba to use WINS - and smbclient will pick
up those settings - not sure about cifs mount attempts.  However
he is interested in connecting via rdesktop which I don't
think has any concept of WINS or netbios names.  He really
needs to get the names from DNS - and they might be there
if he finds the right dns server.

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  Les Mikesell
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