Hello Thomas,
The behaviour of WINS is different between Win95, Win98, Win98SE and
NT4 (depending on the service pack). Different versions of Samba cope
variously with the mixtures. MS browsing is a different, but related
phenomenum. The best overview and troubleshooter is probably
"BROWSING-Config.txt for Samba release 2.x.x" in the Samba docs.
This deals with multiple domain and workgroup browsing fairly
simply.
You do not say which version of Samba you are running or on which OS
- I assume 2.x on Linux.
I would guess that your problem is more with the mixed MS environment
than Samba per se. The rule of thumb is all NT servers(of any
description) should have the same service pack (5 or 6a for NT4; if
you have Samba and NT servers with Win98 or NT(3-5) workstations then
only the NT servers will be browse masters as far as the workstations
are concerned; preferably declare the NT BDCs as WINS controllers
(these do the domain authentication - the PDC keeps the master
domain data); if there are no BDCs then the PDC should be the WINS
server/browse master. That generally works, other combinations are
possible, but more tricky. I am still struggling to get NT4, NT5 and
'nix/Samba to work together.
> The firewall vpn config has dns/wins configured.
does this mean that you have both a Samba and another server being
WINS servers? I do not think that this can work even with Samba-TNG.
One difference between Win95 and Win98?? is the question of encrypted
authentication and the guest user account.
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