Jason, I have seen sync delays of a couple of hours. I don't know any way to force it. I would suggest to increase the logging level of nmbd to 2 or 3 and tail -f the nmbd.log file and see what you get.
Charles On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:28:16 -0400, Jason C. Waters wrote > I have it setup that way, with the clients behind each gateway to > use the gateway as their wins server. But I can't see them through > my network places. Any ideas? How long does it take to sync? Can > I force it to sync? Thanks for your help. > > Jason > > Charles Hamel wrote: > > >Jason, > > > >Option A is the good way. > > > >You could use remote browse sync according the the manpage since you only have > >Samba servers. We have a mixed network here so it is not a solution. So your > >configuration could be, anybody correct me if this is wrong : > > > >For the 192.168.0.1 server : > >remote browse sync = 192.168.2.1 > >wins support = yes > > > > > >For the 192.168.2.1 server : > >remote browse sync = 192.168.0.1 > >wins support = yes > > > >The manpage doesn't mention that WINS is required for remote browse sync, > >since it is based on the workgroup master browser. So maybe you don't need > >WINS server at all. > > > >Charles > > > >On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:53:02 -0400, Jason C. Waters wrote > > > > > >>Charles, > >> The clients behind each gateway, do they point to the local wins > >>server then? So for the clients on the 192.168.0.0 network, they > >>would point to 192.168.0.1, where samba is running a wins server and > >>announces to 192.168.2.255? You have wins server = 192.168.1.50, > >> would I just have wins support = yes if its on the same machine? > >>Let me clear up what I'm trying to say. > >> > >>Should my network look like this: Option A > >> > >>Clients on network A(192.168.0.0) have a wins server of > >>192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins server) > >>192.168.0.1(Samba wins server with these settings, wins support = > >>yes, remote announce = 192.168.2.255) 192.168.2.1(Samba wins server > >>with these settings, wins support = yes, remote announce = > >>192.168.0.255) Clients on network B(192.168.2.0) have a wins server > >>of 192.168.2.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins > >>server) > >> > >>Or this: Option B > >> > >>Clients on network A(192.168.0.0) have a wins server of > >>192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins server) > >>192.168.0.1(Samba wins server with these settings, wins support = > >>yes, remote announce = 192.168.2.255) 192.168.2.1(Samba wins server > >>with these settings, wins server = 192.168.0.1, remote announce = > >>192.168.0.255) Clients on network B(192.168.2.0) have a wins server > >>of 192.168.2.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins > >>server) > >> > >>Or this: Option C > >> > >>Clients on network A(192.168.0.0) have a wins server of > >>192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins server) > >>192.168.0.1(Samba wins server with these settings, wins support = > >>yes, remote announce = 192.168.2.255) 192.168.2.1(Samba wins server > >>with these settings, wins server = 192.168.0.1, remote announce = > >>192.168.0.255) Clients on network B(192.168.2.0) have a wins server > >>of 192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins > >>server) > >> > >>Thanks for your help > >> > >>Charles Hamel wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi Jason, > >>> > >>>I have a similar setup and all I need to do was to enable ip directed > >>>broadcast on the router and enter the following settings in smb.conf: > >>> > >>>wins server = 192.168.1.50 > >>>remote announce = 192.168.1.255 > >>> > >>>HTH > >>> > >>>Charles > >>> > >>>On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:23:18 -0400, Jason C. Waters wrote > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>I'm having a hard time figuring this one out. I've done this before > >>>>when I had a PDC on one end of the VPN, and a BDC on the other. > >>>>This is what my setup looks like now. > >>>> > >>>> Clients(XP) > >>>> | > >>>>PDC(192.168.0.4), windows 2000 > >>>> | > >>>> | > >>>>WINS Server Samba(192.168.0.1), also the gateway for this network > >>>> | > >>>> | > >>>> Internet > >>>> | > >>>> | > >>>>WINS Server Samba(192.168.2.1), also the gateway for this network > >>>> | > >>>> | > >>>> Clients(XP) > >>>> > >>>>With this setup I'm not sure how I'm suppose to setup each wins > >>>>server. Do I need to have one on each subnet, and then have them > >>>>both remote announce and remote browse sync to each other? Or > >>>>maybe some like that? When I'm using remote announce, should it be > >>>>192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.0.255? Same with remote > >>>>browse sync, does it need to be the actual address of the other wins > >>>>server? or do I just send it to that subnet? Does anyone have a > >>>>working configuration with this setup(Domain on one side of the > >>>>tunnel and just a workgroup on the other, both are the same > >>>>workgroup). All the machines can ping each others ip, so I know > >>>>its not a tunnel issue. Thanks for your guys help. > >>>> > >>>>Jason > >>>> > >>>>-- > >>>>To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >>>>instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>-- > >>>Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > >-- > >Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > > > > -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
