[Samba] not able to browse other domains/workgroups

[John H Terpstra]

Folkert,

What is the contents of your wins.dat file on the samba server?
If all your PC's have not registered with your WINS server then their
entries will be missing from this file.

- John T.


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> enhanced browsing is yes, wins pc started first, ping goes fine (as
> does ssh and other things). also waiting, say, half an hour (or more!)
> doesn't help
>
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: richard [mailto:rcoates at bigpond.net.au]
> Verzonden: donderdag 20 maart 2003 11:07
> Aan: folkert at vanheusden.com
> CC: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] not able to browse other domains/workgroups
>
>
> we setup one and ONLY one pc to be a WINS server....and then point EVERY
> pc on ALL networks to it. we do NOT use "remote announce". I assume
> "enhanced browsing = yes" ,the hidden default. Ping from one pc to
> another to test network. Start wins pc first to speed things
> along...restart every pc so they register with wins...will take a little
> time to stabilise...it should just work. The only weakness we found is
> only one wins-server for all domains/networks.
> regards,
> Richard Coates.
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:41, folkert at vanheusden.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following situation:
> > 192.168.64.0/24 is my local network. .1 is my PDC (samba 2.2.6) workgroup
> > is vanheusden
> > 192.168.97.0/24 is an intranet somewhere else to which I'm connected
> > through a vpn. workgroup is enderman
> > ip-forwarding is enabled on 192.168.64.1 (my default gateway and endpoint
> > for the vpn)
> > on 192.168.64.1 I've set hosts allow to 192.168. and 127.
> > hosts allow = 192.168. 127.
> > on 192.168.97.1 I've added the following to smb.conf:
> >    remote announce = 192.168.64.255
> >    remote browse sync = 192.168.64.1
> >
> > when I browse the network on a pc in the 192.168.64.0/24 network, I can
> > see the workgroups vanheusden and enderman, but for the enderman network
> > there seem to be no hosts!
> >
> > What can this be?
> >
> >
> > Folkert
> >
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org