AW: Samba across subnets?

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Won't WINS also help with this?
-aaz
At 03:46 AM 9/9/98 +1000, Rudolf Kollien wrote:
>If you don't want to type the ip adress of your samba server every time you
>connect, add a entry to your local hosts file and lmhosts file.
>
>You will find this files (and sample files with extension ".sam") in the
>windows main directory of Win95 and under "system32/drivers/etc" on WinNT
>4.0.
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>Regards,
>
>
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>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [mailto:jcastro at pcshop.com.br]
>> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 8. September 1998 18:28
>> An: Multiple recipients of list
>> Betreff: Re: Samba across subnets?
>>
>> Try to go to Start / Run... and type \\201.202.203.204\yourshare,
>> placing your
>> server's IP instead of 201.202.203.204 and a real share name instead of
>> "yourshare". I was even able to connect to a VERY remote Samba
>> server using this
>> syntax.
>>
>> []'s,
>> Juan
>>
>> Paul L. Lussier wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've recently set up a samba server, but just discovered that people
>> > on the "other" side can't reach it.  The system shows up in Network
>> > Neighborhood, but you can't double click on it.  It returns a
>> message saying
>> > that the server is either inaccessible, or that I misspelled the name
>> > (How I did that with just one mouse click is beyond me ;)
>> >
>> > I had  'allow hosts' undefined, accepting the default of
>> allowing all hosts,
>> > and tried changing it to include the 2 subnets we have up here,
>> but it didn't
>> > seem to take any affect.  Is it trying to do a DNS resolution
>> or something?
>> > The system isn't in our local DNS server, only NIS.  And since I'm using
>> > aliases with the system, they aren't in either DNS or NIS.  I
>> would expect
>> > it to resolve via netbios, since it is showing up in the NN browser!
>> >
>> > TIA,
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Seeya,
>> > Paul
>> > ----
>> > plussier at baynetworks.com
>> > Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel
>> Company, Ay! :)
>> >
>> >         If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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