I'm very new to linux -
I VPN into my MS server using Fedora laptop dell400
My network that I'm on is 192.168.0.222
The VPN server has an internal address 172.16.0.2
My VPN is successful
I can ping 172.16.0.2 and even the router of the VPN server 172.16.0.1 and another computer 172.16.0.3 on that remote network (accorss the internet)
Anyway - so I'm setting up samba.
the VPN server is called BUCKY
the 172.16.0.3 is called BONUS
I cannot ping them by name
I have in smb.conf
wins server = 172.16.0.2
I had to change to interfaces = 172.16.0.0/24 because the dell400 got registered on the VPN/WINS server as 192.168.0.222
When I added interfaces = 172.16.0.0/24 it got registered correctly as 172.16.0.15 which is the PPP0 address on Dell400 (fedora)
I even added to the conf file the following:
name resolve order = wins
When I try to ping bucky I get:
[root@dell400 samba]# ping bucky
ping: unknown host bucky
It doesn't even wait to check with the wins server on 172.16.0.2. It immediatly tells me - host not found.....
Again - I can ping 172.16.0.2 which IS ----> Bucky
Any ideas?