[KLUG Members] PPTP.

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Wed Oct 27 08:38:00 EDT 2004


> > > > > You can test WINS using the nbtstat<sp?> command.
> > > > I can't find that command.  Maybe you meant nmbstatus or nmblookup ?
> > > On the 2000/XPee/2003 box.
> > OK, I thought you were talking about a Linux command.
> > It appears to work from my XPee box, although it tries to find it on the
> > wireless, local, my-tap, and PPTP connections, and only finds it on PPTP
> > (which is where it should be, I guess :)
> 
> Very strange.
> 
> 1. If WINS is enabled and you are the correct node-type (browseing
> disabled) then non-qualified names should try WINS first.
> 2. If the DNS suffix of a FQDN matches the domain for a specified
> connection it should try the DNS servers specified in that connection
> first.  (Actually this is rather nicer than how Linux works, assuming of
> course, that it does work).

It's possible that WINS is not working correctly.  I have it enabled in
Samba, but I've never tried using it before.

> Are you using NAT or proxy-arp?

proxy-arp.

 - BS




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