Hello List,
Is TAP-win32 designed to handle totally non-IP environment?
I have a LAN (all-winXP-SP2) where all the file-sharing is done with
NetBEUI. IP family is used only to access the external hosts through
POP3, SMTP and HTTP[S]. "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" is disabled on all
instances of TCP/IP on all adapters, all 135~139 and 445 ports are
closed. There is no domain, no WINS, only a good old workgroup.
When I bridge TAP-win32 with NIC and unbind the file-sharing off
the TCP/IP - the remote connection works with some anomalities.
Namely those anomalities are:
- the remote (winXP-SP2) machine can access the sharings of the
OpenVPN server only;
- all other machines (except the OpenVPN server) see only the remote
machine's sharings, but if they search the neibourhood manually -
they can discover and access the workgroup on one-by-one basis
(i.e. it takes to search for the particular machine to discover it,
all others stay invisible, the neibourhood stays unpopulated);
- the OpenVPN server looses all the file-sharing ability when the
remote client connects, any attempt to browse the neibourhood ends
with the "You have no access rights..." failure. It takes some time
after the client disconnection to regain the file-sharing on the
server machine. The IP-connectivity to the outer world works no
matter what;
OpenVPN v2.0.2, runs as the service.
Please comment.
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Best regards,
Anthony
