XP netbios and mutiple subnets

[DavidAtkinson at solectron.com]

To use multiple subnets you need to be using WINS. You can get around this
by setting up your a samba server to act as a wins server and act as a
broadcast proxy. the options are :

wins support = yes
wins proxy = yes

but for this to work you need to have a samba server on each subnet. The
samba servers on other subnets need to have options like :

wins server = 10.20.30.40
wins proxy = yes

You can use an NT machine as the wins server. Just set up all the samba
machines as with the second options. (wins server = x.x.x.x). Ideally though
you would want to (eventually) move all the clients to using a wins server
directly, rather than through proxy broadcasts. 

The other option is far uglier. You can setup lmhost files. there should be
a file called lmhosts or lmhosts.sam in your windows directory. You can use
this as a basis, but I would not recommend this for the same reason I would
not recommend using host files in place of DNS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Frencham [mailto:daniel at systemexploit.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 5:42 PM
To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
Subject: XP netbios and mutiple subnets


Hello, I run a medium sized network with multiple subnets.

I have "allow netbios forwarding" enabled on all routers, but I can't always
contact XP machines in other subnets. I just get "host not found".

Also, sometimes XP machines give the message "the trust relationship between
the workstation and the domain failed".


Daniel Frencham