[Samba] WINS over subnets

Aaron Kincer kincera at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 21:13:31 GMT 2006


Barry, Christopher wrote:
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>
> For each host on 192.168.3.0/24, manually add in the WINS address of
> hgsserver in the wireless NIC configuration. Because WINS does not jump
> routers, you'll need to tell the client where to find this information.
>
>   

This is not entirely correct. Many routers can be configured to forward 
NetBIOS and WINS frames. Firewalls that split subnets off different 
interfaces can do it too. However, it can be messy to forward broadcast 
frames.


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