Hi Gavin and I appear to have successfully connected our Linux and Windows machines via Tinc, but cannot seem to do anything else. We cannot ping each other's vpn network. Gavin would like to be able to: * browse my local SMB (Windows and Samba) network * collect his email via my local mail server Are asking too much of a VPN here? Have we missed something? All details, Linux output and Windows screenshots are here: http://www.littlefield.info/tinc Thanks in advance for your help and comments. Regards PAULLY
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:06:21PM +0100, Paul Littlefield wrote:> Gavin and I appear to have successfully connected our Linux and Windows machines via Tinc, but cannot seem to do anything else. > > We cannot ping each other's vpn network. > > Gavin would like to be able to: > * browse my local SMB (Windows and Samba) network > * collect his email via my local mail server > > Are asking too much of a VPN here? Have we missed something?If tinc is configured properly, pinging and sending mail should not be a problem. For browsing with SMB have to run a WINS server.> All details, Linux output and Windows screenshots are here: > > http://www.littlefield.info/tincUse -d5 to see even more debug output from tinc. Also check your routing table and firewall rules. If you still have probles, send us everything mentioned in http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_5.html#SEC62. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.eu.org> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://brouwer.uvt.nl/pipermail/tinc/attachments/20040824/540da383/attachment.pgp
On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:22, you wrote:> > No, you are not asking too much; that is what the VPN is for.Great, that's a relief!> > You included lots of screenshots on that URL, but you omitted most of > > the actual config files. We need to see the conf file of both > > machines, the hosts files of both machines (and confirmation that they > > are both the same on both ends) and any tinc-up scripts you have.That's all done and uploaded to:- http://www.littlefield.info/tinc/> > It looks like it might be a subnetting/routing issue, but I can't tell > > without seeing your config files, etc.Good... sounds promising then! Basically, we want to be able to have Gavin get email from the same machine where the Tinc daemon is running, AND browse some files through a Samba share on the local network. Fingers crossed, and thanks for everything so far! Regards PAULLY