Clients on a different subnet + DHCP

[Olivier Roy De Rives]

An LMHOST file on your workstations with the Samba Server's IP and (if 
applicable) the PDC's IP should remedy this.

Something like this:

199.199.50.20	PDCNAME	#PRE #DOM: DOMAINNAME
199.199.62.10	SAMBASERVER #PRE

Hope this helps

> Originator: samba-ntdom at samba.org
> From: Francisco Caliz <fcc at jerez.micro.lucent.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Subject: Clients on a different subnet + DHCP
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> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:46:14 +1000
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> 
>     I have a simple (to explain, at least) problem:
>  
>   I have samba on a Solaris 2.6 server, with the basic configuration ( I
> share /tmp with no restrictions ), the smbclient on another Solaris
> machine on the same subnet is perfectly able to access the share, but NT
> 4.0 Workstations can`t do it.
>  
>   NT Workstations live on a different subnet (xx.yy.33.zz) than Solari`s
> one (xx.yy.32.zz), and some of them can see the samba server as a member
> of the network neighborhood if you find it by name, but some others
> can`t do it at all. None of them can see the share, or the location of
> the server (the domain/workgroup, I mean).
>  
>   I have run some tests to ensure the visibility between the machines,
> specificaly a series of tests proposed by Andrew Tridgell, and
> everything worked OK, but I suspect that these test were assumpting that
> PC`s had static IP address (we use DHCP). 
>  
>   I don`t know how to ensure the samba server to became a member of any
> NT domain, or if this is neccesary.
>  
>   This is the share, the only difference from a basic smb.conf:
>  
> [tmp]
>    comment = Temporary file space
>    path = /tmp
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
>  
>  
>  Thank you very much.
>  Francisco Caliz Carretero.

Olivier  Roy De Rives
NT/UNIX Sys. Admin.
Great-West Life & Annuity
Denver, CO
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