Topic: SMB doesn't seem to work on additional network on VPN

[badger]

Hi,

I'm runing an SME 5.5 in "server-only" mode. Everything is working fine. Lately we installed an VPN (Zywall 10) to a sublocation. VPN works fine too. Ping, http, ssh can connect to the SME. Added the subnet to "additional networks" etc. (main location is 192.168.1.x  255.255.255.0 an sublocation is 192.168.20.x  255.255.255.0)  The only thing that doesn't work is MS Networking. Am I missing something??

I don't know if this should be in this forum.

Greetings from a dutch SME user

[rob wellesley]

MS Networking (or WINS) is non-routable. your local master browsers on each subnet will need to exchange info. if your vpn link is non-permanent or you don't have a wins server at both locations then you probably can't.

drive mapping should work fine if you use IP

\\Sharename

rob

[badger]

Yes, but even if I use IP adresses, winXP doesn't seem to find any sme server or share at all. It does detect other (windows)machines on the other side of the VPN by their IP adress. So in general MS networking is ok over the VPN. Only, in some way it doesn't work for the sme. I can reach it with ping, ssh, http. But not to give me access to a i-bay. (I have added the 'VPN' subnet to additional networks. I even tried it with changing the Samba variable "Guest ok"  to "yes". But I think that just matters when the SME is already detected.

[boris]

Did you add Your subnet as local network to the server you are trying to connect to?

[badger]

Yes, I did.  I even tried to grant guests access by changing the setting in the template for smb.conf  to be sure it isn''t some security rule of samba to be visible. In the meantime I've made a fresh install with an 5.6 sme. But still the same problem. The "strange" thing is that I can see other server on the same network the sme is in. Only difference? Those are MS machines.