Is Samba "remote browse sync" possible across OpenVPN tunnel?

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Published on 2012-10-03T15:00:20Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 15:40 UTC
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I'm connecting 2 TomatoUSB (Shibby build on WNR3500L v2) routers with an OpenVPN routed connection:

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| Router 1, subnet 20 | <--tunnel--> | Router 2, subnet 21 |
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Router 1 is the OpenVPN server and Router 2 is a client. Clients attached to the routers on both subnets can ping clients on the other subnet, so the tunnel and routing works.

I've enabled file sharing on both, in order to get their Samba WINS servers running. Is it possible to get name resolution across the tunnel? I've tried remote browse sync = 192.168.21.1 in /etc/smb.conf on the server side, to no avail. Also tried using the IP adress that the client gets from the OpenVPN address pool (usually 10.8.0.something), but still no joy.

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