[mythtv-users] OT: SMB browsing (Was: Open VPN server on backend)

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 10:52:05 UTC 2015


Hoi Simon,

Friday, November 20, 2015, 11:41:15 AM, you wrote:

> Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

>> I am running OpenVPN in bridged mode, so I can access Windows/SMB shares on my network - access to the broadcast packets is needed for that to work.

> That's not correct. SMB filesharing will work just fine across routed networks.
> It does however need a little help from the network to make the
> default browsing work - as in a workgroup based computer go into
> file manager and be able to browse servers that aren't in the local broadcast domain.

> It's a lot of years since I last played with this, so I can't
> remember the details. I vaguely recall we had Samba v3 running as a
> domain controller at each site, and it took care of broadcasting a
> complete server/device list to each local network. I know we have
> customers at work who do cross site file sharing which is (other
> than speed) transparent to users - but that's all using active
> directory which looks like a black art to me ;-)

> Even without the browsing, you can connect to a remote share by IP,
> ie by going to \\192.168.57.89\myfiles instead of \\myserver\myfiles

> _______________________________________________

You need a wins server om the other side and you need it in your
machines winsserver list (dhcp)



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