Accessing server by hostname
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If you have the OpenVPN server push the LAN IP of the firewall to the client as a DNS server, it should work.
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If you have the OpenVPN server push the LAN IP of the firewall to the client as a DNS server, it should work.
are you talking about a client specific setup in vpn?
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No, in the OpenVPN server settings one of the choices is DNS servers to supply to the client (assuming you're using PKIā¦)
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No, in the OpenVPN server settings one of the choices is DNS servers to supply to the client (assuming you're using PKIā¦)
Ok, got that..i enabled it and now i can access a share, i have to put in the actual ip address instead of the hostnameā¦the hostname still gets unresolved.
is there a setting to fix this issue as well?
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If the DNS server gets passed to the OpenVPN client, and that DNS server can resolve the hostnames you want, it should all just work.
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If the DNS server gets passed to the OpenVPN client, and that DNS server can resolve the hostnames you want, it should all just work.
okā¦so i enabled client-to-client vpn and that allowed me to access shares...but i still can't access shares with a hostname...
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That's down to WINS I suspect. You can either use the name that's in DNS, or you can ensure you have a WINS server on your LAN and that you push it to your OpenVPN clients.
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I have a mixed network with mostly Windows machines, a Mac, and a few Linux boxes. There is no DNS or WINS server, and adding one is outside of my control. If I put a clean install of 10.04 desktop on a computer, then all other machines on the network can get to that machine by hostname just fine. However, if I put 10.04 server on the same computer, then the other machines can only get to it by IP address. The hostname does no
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That means you have something on your network doing name resolution, it could be any one of a number of things (DNS, WINS, Bonjour/Zeroconf) and there isn't enough information to know exactly which. I'm guessing that when you install your Ubuntu 10.04 desktop it's installing a package that enables the registration of it's hostname in that service, and that package isn't installed by default with Ubuntu server.
What versions of Windows do you have (eg Windows XP Pro) and what version of MacOS? Does the access by hostname work from the Windows and the MacOS hosts, or just the Windows hosts?
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To access the hosts you need HOSTNAME + DOMAINNAME
Hostname: PC1
Domain. Mydomain.comPC1.Mydomain.com
If you do not want to enter the domain name, you have to enter this domain name on your clients netzwork config tool.
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I'm only running windows machinesā¦xp, 7, 2003 server...no mac or linux
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Do not know all english expressions therefore I better let talk pictures.
You need to enter this domains on all the clients from where you want to establish the connection by hostname. I think in a windows domain you could use GPOs for that.
