OMG..What the.. so much trouble.. wasn't the original problem that they wanted to see each others machine/shares off NN? I'm getting off track now and confused...
You don't need smbmount on the firewall.. it's just there to handle the broadcast of machines on both networks and broadcasts to both networks like a *yes* proxy server for Netbios.. BUT it must be the master browser.. 1 machine 1 solution, not 2 and transfering this and that,etc.. *shudders*... thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -----Original Message----- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 05 July 2002 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NetBIOS browsing across subnets Yes, I did say you compromise the Samba servers by doing this..... I have had similar problems, and most were fixed with upgrade NFS... Also, having filesystems mounted on demand and unmount at idle has minimised problems. Ok, NFS will in future be *the* solution. Just that having Samba running on a firewall machine is erksome for many reasons.. Another solution, to avoid Samba on the firewall system having to write and read from the Host's filesystem is to yes, have Samba running on the firewall, but have a Samba server on each subnet. Then just have the firewall host smbmount the two subnet's Samba server's shared filesystems. The firewall host then advertises the shared filesystem from one subnet on the other subnet.. BTW is there any such hing as a NetBIOS proxy server?? This will be ideal. Cheers, Michael George Vieira wrote: >I'm sorry but NFS is no way a solution for this.. I've seen crashes on NFS >servers before many times and also when one server has a problem then the >other server goes into a panic attack.. sometimes even goes into 100%CPU as >I've seen before.. yes upgrade NFS if youmust but I still say samba as >master browser is the way to go as this works perfectly on my VPN >server/firewall without a hitch.. > >thanks, >George Vieira >Systems Manager >Citadel Computer Systems P/L >http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au >
