On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Larry Liu wrote: > Thanks, John, for the quick reply. > > My test environment is like you recommended, only one WINS running on > Samba 3.0.0. The interesting part is: on the server subnet, we can see > all the win32 and samba clients from other subnets which have at least > one samba client on each, but can not see any subnets that have win32 > clients only. However, if I go down all those subnets, I can see all > the win32 and samba clients that are using this only WINS. Any idea ?
What are your Windows clients? 9x/Me or 2KX/XPP? IT makes a difference. For Win9x/Me to be visible across the entire network you must export a share on each. Win 2Kx/XPP should be visible without this hack. - John T. > > John H Terpstra wrote: > > >On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Larry Liu wrote: > > > > > > > >>The How-To writes : "nmbd can be configured as a WINS server, but it is > >>not necessary to specifically use Samba as your WINS server. MS Windows > >>NT4, Server or Advanced Server 200x can be configured as your WINS > >>server. In a mixed NT/200x server and Samba environment on a Wide Area > >>Network, it is recommended that you use the Microsoft WINS server > >>capabilities. In a Samba-only environment, it is recommended that you > >>use one and only one Samba server as the WINS server." in chapter 10. > >> > >>We found that each of our subnets has to have at least one Samba client > >>pointing to the same Samba WINS server, if we have to make enterprise > >>WINS(running on Samba 3.0.0) working, in a mixed environment as > >>described above, even though all the Win9x,Winnt, Win2k, & XP clients > >>point to the same Samba WINS server. > >> > >>Has anyone had the similar experience? Or, any work-around instead of > >>using MS WINS server(s)? > >> > >> > > > >You should be able to run with just one Samba WINS server for your whole > >network. All clients (Samba as well as Windows) must be configured to use > >that same WINS server. > > > >The reason for the recommendation is that MS Windows based WINS servers > >typically use WINS-WINS replication protocols that Samba does not support. > > > >- John T. > > > > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
