From: Church, Chuck (cchurch@wamnetgov.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 11:40:16 GMT-3
Windows networking seems to use a combination of all-nets broadcasts,
directed broadcasts, and if that fails, unicasts 'supposedly' to the
master browser or WINS server. The problem is their documentation on
the whole process sucks, as does their troubleshooting tools. I
recently worked with a bank moving from a frame relay network to a VPN
based broadband solution. 'Network Neighborhood' browsing has been
sporadic at best since then, despite a million combinations of using
WINS, forwarding directed broadcasts over GRE tunnels, etc, etc. MS,
have you ever heard of Multicast????
Sorry to rant a little,
Chuck Church
Lead Design Engineer
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
Wam!Net Government Services - Design & Implementation Team
13665 Dulles Technology Dr. Ste 250
Herndon, VA 20171
Office: 703-480-2569
Cell: 703-819-3495
cchurch@wamnetgov.com
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http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=cchurch%40wamnetgov.
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
ccielab@cox.net
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 11:49 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: OT: Windows networking over gre tunnel interface
Dear group, please help. I have several sites that have 100M comm and
windows clients and the server is at a central location. At each site
we are using Microsoft AD and Win2k, user logon to the primary server at
the central to get their profile. I now have come into a situation
where the connection to a site is now through GRE tunnels instead of
physical comm. The cleint logs on, but the connection drops after a
minute. I thought that MS networking with 2000 is supposed to be over
IP, and lnot relying on the NBT broadcast anymore. Is there an issue
running windows login over a network with gre tunnels between the cleint
and server?
TIA
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