[Samba]RE: Syncing WINS

[Robert Dege]

> WINS by itself doesn't care about subnets.  Clients are told the IP of
> the WINS server and they speak to that IP.  End of story.  Of course
> this may only work for NetBIOS over TCP/IP scenarios, but I don't know
> the guts of WINS & how it may or may not work over other protocols.

> NetBIOS, yes, generally has this subnet limitation because of it's
> (rather annoying) desire to broadcast.  This limitation goes away over
> TCP/IP;  broadcast is only one of 4 different methods that Samba can use
> for finding out which NetBIOS name belongs to which machine.  Broadcast
> is also the least desirable of the four (because it's very noisy on the
> network).

Here's the oddity that I'm running into.  As you already know, I have 2
segregated subnets, that I wish to merge into one, big happy Network
Neighborhood..... via WINS.

I currently have 2 WINS servers running, 1 on each subnet (172.28x.x &
192.168.100.x)

So I took my one machine, on subnet 172.28.x.x, and pointed it look at
the WINS server on located on the other subnet (192.168.100.x).

However, when I boot Win98, I still see all the computers on the local
subnet, and NO Computers that are linked via the WINS server on the
other subnet.  Does that make sense :)?

If I go to Start -> Run, and then specify a computer (ie: \\Fileserver),
then I get the computer & shares.

perhaps I just don't understand the full functionality of the WINS
server.  I thought it was a replacement for broadcast.  Yet it seems as
if Win98 still does a broadcast to populate Network Neighborhood.

Any clarification or corrections to me madness is appreciated.

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-Rob