[Openswan Users] Samba not working over IPsec

[Ken Bantoft]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> Hi,
>  I've managed to get my VPN to behave itself (after switching to another VPN
> client). I've also managed to get Samba to work cross-subnet for browsing.
> The problem is, although I can see all the machines and shares on the
> network, it takes around five minutes for the laptop to open a share on any
> machine on the 10.0.0.0/16 subnet. Once a share has been opened, access to
> the 10.0.0.0/16 subnet becomes pretty quick.

You've got centralized WINS server designated for every box?  And reverse 
DNS?  Sounds like a name resolution timeout.