On Monday 28 January 2002 22:17, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > We put a wins server on one side; but, that did not make windoze all > of that windoze functionality possible. > > So, we blew away that wins server and put samba (nmb-207.lrp) on each > gateway. It's taken some tweaking and reading man smb.conf > <http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html>. > > Still, windoze functionality is severely lacking across the wan! > > Do the samba servers need to communicate with each other? If so, the > DCD gateways cannot ping each other, because they are concurrent with > the gateway itself -- although, from anywhere else on the remote > network, we can ping the opposite gateway by private address. > > What do you think?
[disclaimer.... this has simply been my experience and may not reflect the experience of other frustrated sysadmin's who are likely smarter than me] It would be nice, but Samba still doesn't support more than one WINS server that I know of. There is a remote sync option that might get you somewhere, but I'm afraid from my experience things will probably not be as nice as your hoping. <rant> >From my experience, since M$ has been kind enough to break many RFC's and integrate some bastard implementation of DNS and WINS combined together in Win2K/XP and feels the desire to take over all other servers running similar services (even when told not to !)........ </rant> Win2K Pro/Server/XP will still only run half-ass'ed unless all shares are implicitly mapped. I un-upgraded my systems and went back to NT, as have a couple of other SysAdmin's I know doing similar "experiments". NT runs perfectly in this setup, so I blame the DNS/WINS integration as the only difference I can note between the two OS's. Samba also runs perfectly _if_ no Win2K/XP servers are on the system. Mapping makes things tolerable, but was not feasible on the system I was running. Maybe someone else has figured something better out, but I ran out of idea's personally. I'm just lucky I hadn't bought a bunch of client licenses for Win2K before deciding it wasn't in my best interest. If you happen to figure something better out, _please_ let me know! -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
