Hi
We have:
- One location with several Windows PC (mostly Win10) and a Windows Server (file server & DNS), some printers and NAS. Domain is not used (no AD)
- One location with some Windows PC (Win10) that connect to the main location via VPN (currently SoftEther) in order to access files
- Several notebooks (Win10) that connect via VPN (SoftEther) on random places
I want to replace SoftEther with the PPP that comes with MikroTik in order to avoid installing and configuring SoftEther and remove the SoftEther server from the network.
Right now SoftEther handles the connection ok, the DHCP server (the Mikrotik router on main location) assigns the IP, and the DNS allows me to use hosts instead of FQDN or IPs as if the remote machines were on the local network.
I’ve been trying to configure PPP on MikroTik but I can’t make it work with host names only (I’ve read about the impossibility to pass DNS Suffix via PPTP). I can only make it work using the MikroTik as DNS Server for the VPN and setting statics DNS entries on the MikroTik router, but with FQDN.
Is there a way of configuring the MikroTik and the native VPN connection on Windows (PPTP, L2TP or SSTP, I don’t care which) that allows me to use host names instead of FQDN? I like the functionality of SoftEther but also like the simplicity of Windows built-in clients. I prefer to avoid the old WINS server.
Regards