On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 03:15, Tim wrote: > > > > The only reason I made reference to NetBIOS not necessarily being passed > > over a VPN tunnel is that most of the appliances I have worked with have > > a setting that can be used to propagate NetBIOS over a VPN tunnel. I am > > certainly not trying to assert anything other than I have seen > > situations where it is not automatically configured by default. > > WINS is supposed to be Microsoft's answer to dealing with machine names > and IPs across subnets. Perhaps the poster needs a WINS server between > both sides of the connections to handle name resolution? They could > play with lmhosts file, but that's only useful for static addresses. You can configure samba to use WINS - and smbclient will pick up those settings - not sure about cifs mount attempts. However he is interested in connecting via rdesktop which I don't think has any concept of WINS or netbios names. He really needs to get the names from DNS - and they might be there if he finds the right dns server. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
