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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:46:29 +0100
From:      Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
To:        "Drew Robertson" <the_brothel@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD as dial up server...
Message-ID:  <200312201246.29799@harrymail>
In-Reply-To: <BAY99-F33P9gZXk4X7k0001e2b9@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY99-F33P9gZXk4X7k0001e2b9@hotmail.com>

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On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:57, Drew Robertson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working at getting my FreeBSd 4.8 system to act as a dial up RAS
> server...
>
> At the moment, I have almost everything working... yay!
>
> My question to anyone that knows... my FreeBSD system is running SAMBA and
> is part of a workgroup in my home...
>
> Is it possible from a dial up client to view the Network using network
> neighbourhood??  I read somewhere that as the PPP server is a router,
> network browsing will not work... is this true?

That is true. You'd need at least one server at each subnet.
But once I did a ugly hack to make it working: I bimapped broadcast address=
es=20
along the subnets. As far as I can remember this worked, but it was just fo=
r=20
fun, I never used it. Also prividing a WINS at SAMBA and using that on the=
=20
ppp link was usefull but that was long ago (WinNT WinCE and Samba 1)

=2DHarry

>
> Thanks.
>
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