Firstly, thanks to everyone for their help!

I have managed to get the VPN working to the point where I can browse
network shares and print to network printers using the IP addresses of the
machines on the remote network. I haven't bothered with any WINS setup or
anything yet.
The head office in Hamilton runs a couple of NT servers as well, so I have
done some NET USE commands to map to shares in the remote office that I want
access to, and some smbmount shares on the linux server in the remote office
to map to head office shares. This therefore allows the users in each
office to access files and print to the other office, with the added bonus
of appearing to reside on the local server, and if the link is down, any
printed documents will wait in the local queue until the link is back up.

The ping time for a direct ping from adsl to adsl is approx 75ms, and a ping
through the vpn is about 100ms, but I guess the extra 25ms is due to the vpn
server at one end only being a P166.
I was wondering if anyone knows how I can also force some compression on the
VPN link, which would perhaps speed things up as well as cut down on traffic
charges?

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Martin [mailto:aaronm@firesecurity.co.nz]
Sent: Tuesday, 28 November 2000 18:02
To: 'adsl@unixathome.org'
Subject: SSH / PPPD VPN with ADSL at both ends.

I have two linux servers, both on seperate networks, both behind ADSL
connections. One is an M11, the other an M1122.
I have setup a SSH / PPPD VPN connection as described in the VPN howto
(http://www.linuxdocs.org/VPN-HOWTO.html).

The connection seems to be working ok, and from any given machine I can ping
any machine on the other network.

However, in Windows clients, if I try to 'find' any machine on the other
network, no luck. Pings work fine, but it appears that MS networking won't
work. Even if I enter the remote machines IP address in the
c:\windows\hosts file still no luck.

Has anyone got any ideas? I am stuck!

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