Access across routers

[Jeremy Allison]

Michael Will wrote:
> 
> This allows you to connect, but if you are browsing the network
> neighborhood, and you double click on the \\xyx when the server is not
> local, you get a error back netname could not be found; where as the
> \\xyx.nrl.navy.mil works fine.
> 
> Any ideas how to standardize this to allow connections with only the names?
> I can get it to work when I point my NT client to a local WINS server
> (where the \\xyx is also located) however, we have mulitple DOMAINs and we
> can keep chaging the primary and secondary WINS servers on the client.
> 

Well, in order to do NetBIOS name resolution across routed 
networks you have to have the clients pointing at a WINS
server. The names that appear in the 'network neighborhood'
are always the short NetBIOS names so you need a known 
WINS server to be able to resolve them if they're not in
your broadcast area.

> we can keep chaging the primary and secondary WINS servers on the client.

This looks like the real problem to me :-).

Hope this helps,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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