Connected, but what now?

[Paul Littlefield]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:06, you wrote:
> 
> You have to tell Windows (not tinc) on gavin to use that WINS server.


OK, I've been doing some reading on this WINS thing now (!)

Am I correct in saying that it has to be the settings in Gavins 'Local Area Connection' (see http://www.littlefield.info/tinc/Capture_01.jpg) to add the WINS Server of 192.168.0.111?


> > 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.
> 
> Of course, you told tinc that your VPN consists of only 10.20.40.1/32
> and 10.0.1.111/32. You can either use 10.0.1.111 instead of
> 192.168.0.111, or you have to tell tinc that 192.168.0.111 is part of
> your VPN as well.
> 
> > 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
> 
> Same thing. You told tinc that 10.20.40.1 is part of the VPN, not 10.0.0.8.


Aaaah, right (penny drops)! So, would these be correct...?

http://www.littlefield.info/tinc/gavin
http://www.littlefield.info/tinc/gentoo

:-)

PAULLY