Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-19 Thread Alex @ Avantel
On March 18, 2003 10:53 pm, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: The first comment/correction/suggestion is that there needs to be a *lot* better understanding of the workings of the NBT namespace. Agree with that for sure - look forward to the book. You don't need WINS replication (but JF has been

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:30:18AM -0500, Alex @ Avantel wrote: It's my understanding that this problem has been solved with the MS approach to browsing the WAN - what is the limitation in samba that prevents that from working? AFAIK it's either the limitation of the samba LMB/DMB or name

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:07:08AM -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:06:39AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:30:18AM -0500, Alex @ Avantel wrote: : No need to - been there, done that, it works. The limitation is still the same - IF

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-19 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:22:51AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: : The point is, though, that to have multiple workgroups you need to have multiple LMBs. The problem comes from using Win9x as an LMB, since Win9x does NOT do its job of exchanging browse lists with the DMB. I would love to

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-18 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:34:45AM -0500, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote: Guys, is this an expected behavior? Unless you have WINS up (which causes issues with multihomed machines), one seemingly cannot synchronize browse lists across subnets. Samba's WINS does a good job

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-18 Thread Alex @ Avantel
It's been a while since I looked at this stuff but at the time, WINS replication was not available with samba, and there was no apparent solution to browsing multiple subnets when the 'workgroup' name was different on each subnet. That caused a problem for use of samba in WAN VPNs as

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-18 Thread David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering
Thank you, kind sir! --dave Christopher R. Hertel wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:34:45AM -0500, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote: Guys, is this an expected behavior? Unless you have WINS up (which causes issues with multihomed machines), one seemingly cannot synchronize

Re: Browsing across subnets without WINS

2003-03-18 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
Alex @ Avantel wrote: It's been a while since I looked at this stuff but at the time, WINS replication was not available with samba, and there was no apparent solution to browsing multiple subnets when the 'workgroup' name was different on each subnet. That caused a problem for use of samba