[Samba] WINS over subnets

[Barry, Christopher]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 04:14 +0200, Hoggins! wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make browsing work over several routed subnets, but
> obviously, something goes wrong. Here's the situation :
> 
> 
> 
> !-----------!
> ! hgsserver ! (SAMBA HOST)
> !-----------!
>       |
>       |
>       |
>       |192.168.2.0/24   !----------!      192.168.3.0/24
>       |-----------------! wifigate !------------- - - -
>       | 		       !----------!      (several wireless WinXP boxes)
>       |
>       |
> !--------------!
> ! WinXP box    !
> ! "hoggins"    !
> !--------------!
> 
SNIP...
> My browse.dat does not contain all I need, it just contains my machine 
> ("hoggins") and the server. I would like to have all the other hosts 
> that are on subnet 192.168.3.0/24. These hosts have received the 
> server's IP address as the WINS server in their DHCP transaction, and I 
> can see they communicate with it when doing an ethereal analysis.
> But the browse list remains desperately empty from these hosts.
> 
> Any ideas on how to solve this really annoying problem ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 	Hoggins!

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.


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Regards,
Christopher Barry
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