[wellylug] SME 6.0.1 and VPN connections

[Phillip Rose]

At 22:20 21/08/04 +1200, Michael Dittmer wrote:

>If both the firewall server and Linux server are the only servers on the
>network, how do I setup WINS?
>
>The firewall is Smoothwall 2.0 Express (with all latest patches) and the
>server is SME Server 6.0.1.

Sorry, this is probably a dumb question, but does this mean you want your
SME Server or a Windows machine to act as a WINS server? Assuming it's the
SME machine, some editing of smb.conf is required. (Sam Cannell helped me
with this back in May.)

# set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master
# browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply
   local master = yes

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. This
# allows Samba to collate browse lists between subnets. Don't use this
# if you already have a Windows NT domain controller doing this job
   domain master = yes

# Preferred Master causes Samba to force a local browser election on
startup
# and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election
   preferred master = yes
# OS Level determines the precedence of this server in master browser
# elections. The default value should be reasonable
   os level = 128
(That's probably overkill, but I don't think anybody gets hurt.)

# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS
Server
   wins support = yes

Is the SME Server doing dhcp? That probably is best. I think you may need
to also edit dhcpd.conf to tell it the IP address of your netbios-name-server.

Hope this is useful and reasonably accurate. At least I know these steps
worked for me.

--Phillip