Browsing across subnets without WINS
Steve Langasek
vorlon at netexpress.net
Wed Mar 19 16:06:39 GMT 2003
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:30:18AM -0500, Alex @ Avantel wrote:
> It's my understanding that this problem has been solved with the MS approach
> to browsing the WAN - what is the limitation in samba that prevents that from
> working? AFAIK it's either the limitation of the samba LMB/DMB or name
> resolution (WINS) - or is it somehting else?
> > If all of your DMBs are Samba-based, then you can use Samba's 'enhanced
> > browsing' and 'remote browse sync' options to improve things. Read up on
> > these options in the smb.conf documentation.
> No need to - been there, done that, it works. The limitation is still the
> same - IF there is only one samba server on a subnet, THEN there can only be
> one workgroup on the subnet or browsing will break accross the WAN. If you
> use a MS server, that's not the case. Or am I wrong on that too?
I think this is wishful thinking on your part. I've never seen any signs
that MS servers get this right.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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