Yup, that would have made his life easier. Also, Try reading the Microsoft TCP/IP White paper and rereading the Samba papers. Netbios broadcasts are discussed along with solutions. One of the oldest solutions is to use a 'relay' agent. NT has been able to do that for a long time, and I believe SAMBA can too. (Though I am not an authority on that and could be wrong.)
Netbios broadcasts are how computers advertise their location to the network in one of the possible setups. It is what most basic networks are set up to do.(WINS corrects this, but you have to set each machine up to talk to a WINS server) Unfortunately broadcasts are not usually sent across a router. Which is why you had problems. Had you set up a local to the subnet server that had Netbois relay turned on that was a member of a domain(possibly workgroup, but not sure), you would have had no problems either. There a other solutions as well. Michael Harmer Miller-Valentine Group -----Original Message----- From: Jason Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:58 AM To: Costin Manda Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] subnet browsing crappy solution! Why not just set up Samba to do WINS resolution? You would have saved yourself alot of headaches. Jason At 12:11 PM 6/4/2002 +0300, you wrote: > Trying all the stupid methods to solve the issue of Win2k hosts from >different subnets that can't be seen in the NetworkNeighbourhood when server >is Samba on Linux (including reading the F***ing manuals and not finding >anything useful or browsing through the source of samba until my eyes fall >in my mouth) I have decided that they were, well... ,stupid and chose to try >crappy solutions! One of them worked! > > As I have a network of more subnets linked through routers that >communicate via the internet, I instructed all routers to send the netbios >broadcast packets from their subnets to the linux server. Now all the >computers show in the NN, without any difficulty in access. And the issue of >clogging the net with broadcast packets isn't that grave, as they are small >and transmited only from time to time. > > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba Jason Stewart Systems Administrator/Programmer Right to Life of Michigan Tel: (616)532-2300 Fax: (616)532-3461 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
