Hi all saga continues. I am more convinced this is a routing issue. No matter what I do to alter the routing, ie deleting routing subnets and replacing with host routes netbios broadcasts are being made in the wrong subnet.
ie from route -en Destination Gateway Genmask flags MSS Window irtt Iface 44.131.90.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 44.131.90.149 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 xx.195.148.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 xx.195.148.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 After these mods were made to the routing both smbd and nmbd were shut down and restarted. Once samba was restarted the following:- smbclient //firewall/richard added interface ip=44.131.90.129 bcast=44.131.91.255 nmask=255.255.254.0 the next reply is to ask for the password. Note the netmask and the broadcast address Any machine on subnet 44.131.90.0/24 will not take any notice of broadcasts on 44.131.91.0/24. so any netbios broadcast will be ignored by the windows machine as its in a different subnet, and vice versa . AFAIK this is the reason I cant get the two machines to see each other. When the MDK network config wizard ,from the MDK Control Center, is run the subnet for eth0 (44.131.90.0) is entered correctly, BUT the netmask is changed to 255.255.254.0. It should remain as 255.255.255.0. I cant remember seeing the netmask change this way in previous versions of MDK, especially now /sbin/ifup now has wireless lan DCHP capability. Or maybe something to do with zeroconf ?? Is this a bug thats crept in ??? I'm totally stuck until the netmasks match as the machines will never see each others netbios replies/ bcasts Help please TIA Richard -- richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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