Re: [Openvpn-users] Does OpenVPN encrypt sharing folder data transmission?

[Jakob C. <jc...@in...>]

Khan St Preest schrieb:
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Adrian Chng <adr...@ho... 
> <mailto:adr...@ho...>> wrote:
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>     how can i force data flow for file sharing in windows to use the
>     tunnel?
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The real question here is: what do ypu want to achieve? If you want to 
test a later remote connection setup, I would strongly advise against 
testing in such a way. There are too many things you can oversee and 
mislead you when interpreting your test.
If you want to achieve something else, then perhaps you should tell us 
what the general idea is.
For a remote-to remote test you need only three machines, one of which 
acts as router and the other two as remote network members, no special 
routing hardware or so. But you do need to understand how subnetting 
works and what the subnet mask entry is for.

Remark: we are running SMB connections via OpenVPN and it works 
flawlessly. I agree that SMBist a somewhat strange beast; sometimes it 
may act like a layer 2 thing, but these problems rather appear in local 
networks than in routed ones. What will not work easily is network 
discovery ("neighborhood") as this works via broadcasts.

JC