Fedora Users — Re: Connecting to Windows Network via VPN

Tom Rivers wrote:

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 11:28 -0500, Bill Polhemus wrote:

Bill Polhemus wrote:

Luyi Chen wrote:

This is my understanding: You have a share folder on you windows
vpn server or any windows pc on you remote LAN. You want to access
the folder from you local linux box. Is that right?

You have established connection to you remote network via vpn. I
don't think you can use Konqueror to access the directory. You
should use Network File System (NFS).

Follow up: I don't think NFS will do the trick unless you have NFS
server running on the Windows side which we do not.

What I want to do is access shares on the server via UNC.

Example: //Server/Projects
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Hi Bill,

The UNC notation assumes that your client system knows the shares you
are trying to access by their Microsoft names.  If I am not mistaken,
that requires that your client receives and processes NetBIOS
information.  My experience with VPN's is that NetBIOS isn't normally
passed through the tunnel unless it is specifically configured to do so.
Perhaps this is part of your problem.


Tom

Well, this DOES work when I access via the plain-jane (i.e. NOT the Cisco client) VPN connection from Windows. So I am assuming it will work with Linux. FWIW, when I make the VPN connection through this PPTP client, it tells me the following:

Using interface ppp0
pptpconfig: monitoring interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
MPPE 128-bit stateless compression enabled
local IP address 10.1.8.82
remote IP address 69.8.148.12
primary DNS address 10.1.2.1
secondary DNS address 10.1.2.3
pptpconfig: pppd process exit status 0 (started)
ip route replace 69.8.148.12 via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 src 192.168.1.105
pptpconfig: routes added to remote networks
pptpconfig: DNS changes made to /etc/resolv.conf
pptpconfig: connected
pptpconfig: restoring routing and DNS configuration
ip route del 69.8.148.12 via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 src 192.168.1.105
mv /etc/resolv.conf.orig.WJE /etc/resolv.conf
pptpconfig: routing and DNS configuration restored

This tells me that 1) a secure connection is made and 2) there is DNS in the 10/8 address space.

So where do I go from here? Ultimately I want to connect to the remote desktop, but can't figure out the syntax for that.

(BTW, on my Windows laptop, I have to FIRST make the VNC connection, and THEN fire up the remote desktop client).