Connected, but what now?

[Paul Littlefield]

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 22:08, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> > 
> > I can ping 10.20.40.1 and Gavin receives packets, but Gavin cannot ping 10.0.1.111
>
> If you look at gavin's route table, you see that 10.0.0.0/8 is routed to
> its Ethernet interface instead of the TAP-Win32 interface. It is
> probably best to change the netmask of the Ethernet interface to
> 255.255.255.0


OK, we have more success...!

* I changed the port forwarding on my modem for 655 to go through the firewall, so Gavin can now connect to me from his side.

* Gavin changed the netmask to 255.255.255.0 on his Ethernet interface, so he can now ping the 'gentoo' end of the VPN tunnel at 10.0.1.111


> > Questions...
> > 
> > 1. Should Gavin be able to see 'gentoo' in Windows Explorer?
> 
> If you use a WINS server, yes. Otherwise, no.


OK, I have enabled the WINS option for Samba on 'gentoo'. How do I tell Tinc to use it?


> > 2. Should Gavin be able to ConnectTo 'gentoo' from the Windows Tinc daemon?
> 
> If it can reach the gentoo machine, yes, but you probably need to have set up
> portforwarding on bookpc for that.


Done, thanks!


> > 3. Does it make a difference whether we have /24 or /32 or our netmask settings?
> 
> If you are talking about the Subnets, the answer is no if you only want
> to communicate between 10.20.40.1 and 10.0.1.111. If you want to reach
> other hosts, yes.


Yes, subnets. We currently have everything set to /32.

Here's what we would like to be able to do...

* Gavin to be able to browse his files on a Samba share running on 'gentoo' (192.168.0.111)
* and collect his email via the POP3 Server running on 'gentoo' (192.168.0.111)

In order to do these things, I guess Gavin needs to be able to 'ping 192.168.0.111', which he cannot do as yet.

Also, I cannot ping 10.0.0.8 from Linux 'gentoo'...
1095334184 tinc.gcoles[2176]: Cannot route packet: unknown IPv4 destination address 10.0.0.8

We have uploaded new output and configuration files to our usual address:
http://www.littlefield.info/tinc

I know we are nearly there, can you help?

Thanks!

PAULLY