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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