[KLUG Members] PPTP.

[Bruce Smith]

> > Looking around, I found another place for domain name, under
> > Control-Panel -> Internet-options (instead of Network Connections)
> > and since then it now works half the time (every other time I connect).
> > Weird, but at least it's usable now (with a little screwing around).
> 
> Strange.  But hey, this is a windows client.  

Now somethings it uses both, checking the internet DNS servers first,
then checking the internal DNS servers.  If I have a host defined as an
external IP, it resolves to the external IP (it also has an internal
address).  For those that only have internal IP's, it returns that IP.

Windows ...  :-)

> > Now what's the trick to mapping a network drive through the VPN?  :-)
> > All I get is timeouts, like it's not going through the VPN,
> > and I know the VPN is working because I can browse intranet sites
> > and telnet to ports only on the internal network.
> 
> You're certain your VPN server isn't blocking the CIFS ports?  

Yeah, that was it.  Crap!  I was preventing SMB from leaking.

> Is WINS working,  you really *NEED* WINS to do anything CIFS over the VPN 
> connection.  

I have WINS configured on Samba, but I never tried it before.

And I'm still not sure it's working since while trying to make this work
before, I added my samba server to the XP lmhosts file.  I'll have to
nuke the lmhosts and see if it still works.

> You can test WINS using the nbtstat<sp?> command.

Good to know, thanks!

> Honestly, given the latency of a VPN connection, I find using WebDAV 
> access to document files to be much faster;  CIFS is really slow at high 
> latency.  We run the Davenport CIFS/DAV bridge; so everything exported via 
> CIFS (Samba or Win32) is also a DAV resource.  Dumb users continue to use 
> CIFS, smart ones use DAV.

Yes, I see that.  With the XP box hooked outside my firewall on a 10BT
connection to my internal network it's VERY slow.  I can hardly wait to
try it from a remote location!  :-/

 - BS