On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:53 PM, H.S. <hs.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/06/10 04:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. <hs.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and > >> now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: > >> ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 172.16.15.0/24 192.168.5.0/24 > >> > >> > >> However, I can not only use "sudo smbmount ..." command to access the > >> samba share. The Network browser from Gnome still does not show the > >> share while a VPN client. The VPN client is a laptop running Ubuntu > Karmic. > >> > > > > You may need to have 2 servers to do it (one replicating network map from > > master). Read in samba howto: > > > > > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2585378 > > I read the link but I need to read it again after looking up some > references in it to better understand it. However, I have one doubt that > needs to be clarified. As I described earlier, I have three separate > networks on my LAN: > wired network (192.168.0.0/24) > wireless network (192.168.5.0/24) > VPN (172.16.15.0/24) > > When I start samba on the firewall machine "ROUTER" , I see the > following in its log: > ***** > Samba name server ROUTER is now a local master browser for workgroup > ROUTERSMB on subnet 192.168.0.1 > ***** > <SNIP> > ***** > Samba name server ROUTER is now a local master browser for workgroup > ROUTERSMB on subnet 192.168.5.1 > > ***** > > > This leads me to two questions. If I can browse the share from both of > these networks, why can't I do so from VPN? And, on a related note, why > do only these two networks act as a local browser and why doesn't VPN > (172.16.15.0/24) also do so? > I would run tcpdump ... after starting samba server, and would take a look to elections Master Browser traffic.
Maybe broadcast packets are doing wrong things for you ? Regards,
