what to connect to Samba with vpn 1

[benp07]

i have samba runnning on freebsd is there a way that i can connect to samba over the internet (VPN) so that i can mount samba share to my network at work form freebsd at home.


Thanks,
Ben

 

[John Lewis]

Yes you can! I have a Poptop pptp server running on RH and I connect from every day (right now even). I used Poptop because most of the clients connecting are M$ boxes and it looked to be easier to configure for that.

Start here:

http://www.poptop.org/

If you will not be using any M$ clients, you might want to try one of the other VPN servers. There is a fairly complete list about half way down the page on the Poptop site.

For what its worth, I didn't have too much trouble getting Poptop fired up and it seems to be stable. Wouldn't hesitate to use it again.

 

[benp07]

yes i will be using M$ to connect
Thanks for the info
Ben

 

[hallm]

I was able to get Poptop installed and working. My clients can successfully connect to the Red Hat server and can ping the local IP address of the linux server. I just can't see any of the shares either on the linux box (It's running Samba and sharing files with my other Windows boxes) nor the Microsoft boxes in the network. Any ideas?

 

[John Lewis]

Do you have nmbd running? Do you have your Windoze clients set to use the Samba server as their WINS server?

That's a good place to start, but sometimes it just doesn't work across subnets. There is a way to work around it (using a lmhosts file on the VPN client), but it is not real clean. Even that doesn't work all the time.