[KLUG Members] PPTP.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > 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.

If your using proxy-arp you can just reapply the anti-leak rule to the
external interface only and permit all traffic between all interfaces on
the same subnet.

> > 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.

Add ms-wins a.b.c.d to the ppp options file on the server.

> > 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!  :-/

What do you have the MTU/MRU set to.  Really LOW works best, I set mine
at 296.  Also make sure you have all the compression *disabled*.