[plug] announce IP address for dial-in user

[Luke Dudney]

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Ben Jensz wrote:

>Hey all,
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>I'm wondering if anyone can either help or point me towards something that
>might be able to help me.
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>I've got mgetty setup on a Linux box to allow certain users to dial-in
>remotely to our private LAN and have ppp access and be able to login to our
>Samba server located on the machine they are dialling into.
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>But the problem is that the person dialling in can't access any of the other
>computers on the local LAN.  Basically it can send packets to machines on
>the network, but the computers on the LAN don't know where to send the
>packets back to because they can't see this user hanging off of a modem on
>the gateway box.  At the moment I've got the dial-in user setup to have an
>IP address on the same network as the local LAN, or would it be better to
>put the dial-in user on a different network, so by default it should goto
>the gateway machine (which is the dial-in box and Samba box) and then enable
>WINS on Samba?
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>The dial-in users can access the net and check their email on another server
>which is on the other side of the firewall fine, just can't access any of
>the local computers.
>
>Any ideas/comments on how it could be done better?
>
>TIA :)
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>/ Ben
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