Fedora Users — Re: Connecting to Windows Network via VPN

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 18:17 -0500, Bill Polhemus wrote:

Les Mikesell wrote:

Can you connect with smbclient?

Lee:

Here's what I tried, and what I got:

# smbclient --ip-address xx.xx.xxx.xx --user myuser //myserver/myshare
timeout connecting to xx.x.xxx.xx:445
timeout connecting to xx.x.xxx.xx:139
Error connecting to xx.x.xxx.xx (Operation already in progress)
Connection to myserver failed

I tried this first with,  and then without, the VPN (pptp) connection 
running, and got the same result.

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Unless your remote doesn't have a firewall and the entire path from your
connection to the remote doesn't block ports 137-139 & 445, you aren't
likely to connect to the remote without a VPN. Blocking ports 137-139 &
445 with firewalls is what a firewall is supposed to accomplish.

Thus, you have to use a VPN. Once you are connected to the vpn, can you
ping the remote server? If you can't ping it, it's highly unlikely you
are going to be able to connect to it via smb/cifs client

Craig

Yes, I can connect to it using the PPTP client, and yes, I can ping the server. When I connect via the PPTP client, this is what I get:

Using interface ppp0
pptpconfig: monitoring interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3
MPPE 128-bit stateless compression enabled
local IP address 10.1.8.23
remote IP address xx.x.xxx.xx
primary DNS address 10.1.2.1
secondary DNS address 10.1.2.3
pptpconfig: pppd process exit status 0 (started)
ip route replace xx.x.xxx.xx 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
ping -c 5 xx.x.xxx.xx
PING xx.x.xxx.xx (xx.x.xxx.xx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from xx.x.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=114 time=61.7 ms
64 bytes from xx.x.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=114 time=63.5 ms
64 bytes from xx.x.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=3 ttl=114 time=67.8 ms
64 bytes from xx.x.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=4 ttl=114 time=63.5 ms
64 bytes from xx.x.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=5 ttl=114 time=65.0 ms

--- xx.x.xxx.xx ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 61.723/64.349/67.835/2.051 ms

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Also, /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:

nameserver 10.1.2.1
nameserver 10.1.2.3

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Then, when I disconnect, this is what I get:

pptpconfig: restoring routing and DNS configuration
ip route del xx.x.xxx.xx via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 src 192.168.1.105
mv /etc/resolv.conf.orig.MYSERV /etc/resolv.conf
pptpconfig: routing and DNS configuration restored