[Samba] finding broadcast addresses.

[Brian Kennedy]

not entirely.   the windows clients are getting a netmask of 255.255.0.0 
like they should..  but they are not responding to a broadcast on 
10.11.255.255 like I believe they should from that netmask.

Barry deFreese wrote:

>On Thursday 15 August 2002 11:16 am, Brian Kennedy wrote:
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>Brian,
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>If you do an "ipconfig /all" from a command line on the Win2K box it will 
>give you somewhat of the information you need.  It will show the IP address 
>and subnet mask that DHCP is giving your machine.  The broadcast address 
>should be determined by your subnet mask.  That being said, I am having 
>similar problems on my machines at home.
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>For example ipconfig on my WinME box has IP of 192.168.10.10 with subnet mask 
>of 255.255.255.0.  Therefore, broadcast address should be 192.168.10.255. 
>When I nmblookup -B 192.168.10.255 winme it works fine.
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>Does that help any?
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>Barry deFreese
>Newbie
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>>I'm having trouble with my samba implementation and have determined it's
>>broadcast addresses are not matching.   but just figuring out what
>>win2000 is using for it's broadcast hasnt been so easy.
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>>I'm using 10.11/16.  the server is at 10.11.0.2 with broadcast
>>10.11.255.255.
>>the clients get 10.11.2.* from dhcp which also is also set to tell them
>>to use 10.11.255.255 for broadcast but they're not.
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>>I've "nmblookup -B 10.11.etc.etc client"  with everything that I
>>consider reasonable and no clients will respond.  255.255, 0.255, 1.255,
>>etc...
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>>anyone have a clue what kind of broadcast kludging windows is doing to me?
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>>thanks...
>>...Brian
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