[Samba] Samba vs DHCP

[Wolfgang Wagner]

> From: AVMEJIA [mailto:AVMEJIA at terra.es] 
> 
> I was using a Samba server under a SUNOS 5.5.1 operative system. This
> SUN machine was the server of a number of Lynux (Mandrake) and Windows
> (95,98, XP) computers in a TCP/IP network with fixed IP numbers. We were
> oblied to change to DHCP recently. As our network has a huge number of
> computers I am running the smbd and nmbd daemos of the Samba with an
> identification in such a way that only those windows  computers having
> the WINS protocolo with the same identification were able 'to see' this
> machine. 

OK, up to this point I understand your situation. Please post the part of 
the smb.conf, in which you restricts te visibility of samba.

> Under DHCP, at least for Windows 98, there is no any
> configuration for this protocol in such a way that now although my
> subnetwork is transparent for all SUN and Lynux systems, those Windows
> 98 working under DHCP are not able to recognize the Samba server.

Here is asomething, I do not understand.
Why cannot see the Win98-Clients the Samba-server? 
Which DHCP-Server and which DHCP-Config do you use? 

> Obviously there is a trivial solution, I could eliminate the
> identification in the daemon of the Samba server but the 
> price to pay is

Again, in which way had you realised this identification?

> being transaparent for all the computers on my network (more than four
> thousand), 

Four thousand computers on one single network???
No routers between departements? No chance to filter 
traffic? One single flat network??

> I assume there should be some way in the configuration of
> Samba to allow a particular internet address to access the Samba server
> although it is not able to see it, due to the identification. Does
> anybody know how to do it? Thanks in Advance. Alfredo

I think, this is a DHCP-Problem, but I am incapable of understanding
your problem, because the lack of information.


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Wolfgang Wagner
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