[VPN] Samba with PPTP

[Travis Watson]

Ivan,

Either the FreeBSD box (nice choice, by the way)  is
not properly entered into your internal DNS records or
you are not receiving proper DNS settings when you
authenticate with your client.

As a test, either edit your DNS server IPs on your
client computer or put the freebsd host ip in your
lmhosts file.  My guess is that you will find your
samba share very quickly if/when you do.  If so, think
about either editing your internal DNS and/or tweaking
you VPN server.  

Good luck,

Travis

--- Ivan Wong <hkhehe at email.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am running samba on a freebsd box (behind NAT, IP
> = 192.168.1.207) with
> pptpclient connecting to my company m$2k VPN (tunnel
> IP = 192.168.0.206).
> At first, I can ping the fbsd with its hostname
> (freebsd) from my company.
> But when I try to "net use freebsd /user:xxx *", the
> "net use" will fail
> (err = The network path was not found.) and
> afterwards I can see that ping
> will use 192.168.1.207 (which was originally
> 192.168.0.206). I can ping
> again if I restart the samba. But everytime when I
> try to use the netbios
> name I will get the redirection changed wrongly.
> 
> So I tried to use IP instead. I can browse \\freebsd
> and "net use" my home
> \\freebsd\ivan sucessfully. But when I try to browse
> \\freebsd\ivan it will
> hold for a minute and I will finally get the message
> \\192.168.0.206\ivan is
> not accessible. The specified network name is no
> longer available.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
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