Wins problem

[911PCTECH]

Hello,

I am a new user of untangle, and so far I love it, however I'm still trying to figure everything out. I'm having a problem with WINS resolutions, once connected through openvpn I can ping and access all devices by IP address but not by computer names. I did set the WINS info in the untangle setup, but for some reason I guess its not assigning the WINS address, so is there a way to manually enter WINS info somehow? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Igor

[WebFooL]

Hi and welcome.
The Openvpn gui in Untengle can only push DNS to the VPN client.
But you can edit the server.conf file so it push the win server.

push “route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0″
push “dhcp-option WINS 192.168.0.5″

Edit:
The server.conf is located /etc/openvpn/server.conf
Use pico or nano to edit.

Open terminal or ssh to the box:

sudo -l
# cd /tmp/
# wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nano/nano_2.0.2-1etch1_i386.deb
# dpkg -i nano-tiny_2.0.7-4_i386.deb
# alias nano="nano -w"
#nano /etc/openvpn/server.conf
after #Exports (under you exported network or hosts)
add (push “dhcp-option WINS 192.168.1.10″) (where 192.168.1.10 is the ip of your WINS server.

CTRL+O for saving and then CTRL+X for exit.

GL

[911PCTECH]

Thank you! I will try what you suggested.

[sky-knight]

Edit openvpn.conf yourself and forget to set the override for the file? If you do this the GUI will simply over write your changes when the UVM refreshes itself.

Then again... if you set the override, you can no longer reconfigure openvpn from the gui...

Customization of this nature take some thought. I would suggest unless you are comfortable and willing to argue with the thing for eternity... that you file an enhancement request to add these features to the OpenVPN module.

[Sir Bob]

Hello,
Just to throw my two cents worth in here as I have dealt with the same issue. What my "fix" for exporting the WINS IP was to manually set it on the Tap-Win32 connection on each client that was using the VPN. This is not exactly the greatest solution, but it does get around the WINS issue. Editing the server.conf file proved to be too much of a PITA after the fact.

Sir Bob