I am tring to setup a pptp server on my MT that can pass netbios traffic to the 8 people connected to the pptp server. I want all of the PCs to see each other. I have two PC on the LAN side and 6 on the WAN side.
Can anyone tell me how to make this work?
As long as it is NetBIOS over IP (and not NetBEUI, which can't be routed) then it is just IP traffic like any other IP packets, so you do not need to do anything special with your VPN to make this work.
If you're talking about what can be 'seen' in Windows Network Neighborhood then that's a different issue and more of a windows problem than a routing or a MikroTik problem (i.e. WINS or DNS versus broadcast-based NetBIOS name discovery based on elected 'master browsers' and other MS suckage that I would rather not concern myself with...)
--Tom
If you're talking about what can be 'seen' in Windows Network Neighborhood then that's a different issue and more of a windows problem than a routing or a MikroTik problem (i.e. WINS or DNS versus broadcast-based NetBIOS name discovery based on elected 'master browsers' and other MS suckage that I would rather not concern myself with...)
--Tom
OK, I want to see the files and printers on the other network when I browse Network Neighborhood from ether side of the VPN.
They don't have a WINS server and I don't want to use EoIP(if EoIP would work). But If EoIP is the only way I guess I could make them buy a RB133.
Anyway, this whole thing suchs because Linksys End point VPN routers do it but MT is looking like it's not going to work.
They don't have a WINS server and I don't want to use EoIP(if EoIP would work). But If EoIP is the only way I guess I could make them buy a RB133.
Anyway, this whole thing suchs because Linksys End point VPN routers do it but MT is looking like it's not going to work.
Usually UDP broadcast forwarding, think DHCP relay with a different destination port (137 instead of 67).Interesting the Linksys ones do this - I might investigate them further and see what kind of magic it is.
Anyway, I agree that a WINS server is a much cleaner solution.
And while we are at it, the following link is worth reading:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/networ ... _ch11.mspx
--Tom
So if I used an EoIP tunnel what would stop the two networks DHCP servers from muching up.
Oh, And I would go with a WINS server but the customer has just layed out a lot of cast on new PCs so a server is a at least a year away.
On another Note, I use a VPN client called Hamachi to do VPN LAN games, so I know this would work if I bridge the PCs running Hamachi on each side to the ethernet cards and then add the routes in the routers. BUT, I don't like using a Free program that may not be free in the future.
Oh, And I would go with a WINS server but the customer has just layed out a lot of cast on new PCs so a server is a at least a year away.
On another Note, I use a VPN client called Hamachi to do VPN LAN games, so I know this would work if I bridge the PCs running Hamachi on each side to the ethernet cards and then add the routes in the routers. BUT, I don't like using a Free program that may not be free in the future.
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