Samba across a highly weird network setup.
Ok, need help guys. We're trying to configure here a network setup for samba. Say this is setup in 2 rooms. 1st room. You have 3 machines, one that has a modem, and controls the connection, 2 workstations, on an external network (internet visible IP's), with a network cable going to a 4th machine in the 2nd room 2nd room. 3 more machines, one with a gateway type setup (hence cable mentioned above) which is also a wins server, and 2 machines using ip masquerading. Many may ask, WHY??? rofl, but situation is, we don't have enough ip's to go around. only enough to cover the 3 machines in the 1st room, and the gateway box in the 2nd. Question is, how would we enable samba to work through the gateway from the masq'd boxes to the machines on the external network. We can go masqbox external, but can't go external masqbox. The machines on the external network can see the names of the masq'd network, but can't access them. Anyone know how to? short of getting more ip's or bunging the whole lot on a masq'd connection? Any hints or points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Peter.
Re: Samba across a highly weird network setup.
God thats one weird network set up. Can I ask why the world visable IPs? I mean - do you host web pages or something? If so then those boxes should be either outside the firewall and not used as workstations, or put them inside the firewall and use port forwarding on the firewall to permit external people to access them. Other than that - you need to decide why it is like it is, and decide what tasks are most important. More IPs would help, but then they'd all be outside the masq firewall and naked and vulnerable. Not a good look. At 09:56 PM 10/22/00 +, you wrote: Ok, need help guys. We're trying to configure here a network setup for samba. Say this is setup in 2 rooms. 1st room. You have 3 machines, one that has a modem, and controls the connection, 2 workstations, on an external network (internet visible IP's), with a network cable going to a 4th machine in the 2nd room 2nd room. 3 more machines, one with a gateway type setup (hence cable mentioned above) which is also a wins server, and 2 machines using ip masquerading. Many may ask, WHY??? rofl, but situation is, we don't have enough ip's to go around. only enough to cover the 3 machines in the 1st room, and the gateway box in the 2nd. Question is, how would we enable samba to work through the gateway from the masq'd boxes to the machines on the external network. We can go masqbox external, but can't go external masqbox. The machines on the external network can see the names of the masq'd network, but can't access them. Anyone know how to? short of getting more ip's or bunging the whole lot on a masq'd connection? -- Criggie
Re: Samba across a highly weird network setup.
Couple of reasons for the world visables. Firstly, I got the ip's with my connection. may as well use them. Secondly it's fun to try and tie the router box, the one controlling the connection down tight enough that they can't get to the external ip boxes. And if you spend a bit of time on irc, or quake, the advantage of having a separate ip for each box works wonders. I do host the odd webpage and my own mail server, but nothing major, and that all runs off the router box. Peter. C. Falconer wrote: God thats one weird network set up. Can I ask why the world visable IPs? I mean - do you host web pages or something? If so then those boxes should be either outside the firewall and not used as workstations, or put them inside the firewall and use port forwarding on the firewall to permit external people to access them. Other than that - you need to decide why it is like it is, and decide what tasks are most important. More IPs would help, but then they'd all be outside the masq firewall and naked and vulnerable. Not a good look. At 09:56 PM 10/22/00 +, you wrote: Ok, need help guys. We're trying to configure here a network setup for samba. Say this is setup in 2 rooms. 1st room. You have 3 machines, one that has a modem, and controls the connection, 2 workstations, on an external network (internet visible IP's), with a network cable going to a 4th machine in the 2nd room 2nd room. 3 more machines, one with a gateway type setup (hence cable mentioned above) which is also a wins server, and 2 machines using ip masquerading. Many may ask, WHY??? rofl, but situation is, we don't have enough ip's to go around. only enough to cover the 3 machines in the 1st room, and the gateway box in the 2nd. Question is, how would we enable samba to work through the gateway from the masq'd boxes to the machines on the external network. We can go masqbox external, but can't go external masqbox. The machines on the external network can see the names of the masq'd network, but can't access them. Anyone know how to? short of getting more ip's or bunging the whole lot on a masq'd connection? -- Criggie
