On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 19:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 04:41 +0200, Hoggins! wrote: > > Okay, I checked on my clients, and what I see is for the most > > surprising: they only display hosts within the samba server's > > browse.dat, not even the other hosts on the same subnet (usually, I > > believe they would have been discovered through broadcast). So the only > > machines that appear on ALL the machines of all the subnets are : > > - the server > > - the XP box, located on the same subnet as the server > > > > The other hosts' names can be successfully resolved by the server > > (checked with Ethereal) when explicitly typed in the explorer bar. But > > they are not "discovered" by the network browsing. > > > > Any idea of the problem ? > > > > The local masters don't seem to be doing their job, do they ? > ---- > Official Samba HowTo suggests that you would need a WINS server on each > subnet > > http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html#id2588936 > > You might want to review the documentation - there is a possibility > that > 'remote browse sync = broadcast_address_of_remote_subnet' > might work for you. ---- OK correction...I have it on good authority that I have given bad advice above...
1 - only 1 WINS server 2 - remote browse sync is not what you want 3 - clients need to have proper configuration of WINS server address - if by DHCP, then you probably need to set the node type (option 44/46) correctly 4 - OP should check contents of wins.dat (on my RH systems, they are located in /var/cache/samba but on others, they are in /var/lib/samba YMMV) Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba