Cross subnet browsing

[Robert Dahlem]

John,

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:27:12 +1100, John Twyman wrote:

>I have a samba server on one subnet which is currently very happy serving
>Win 95/98 clients on the same subnet. I have to allow several Win 95/98
>clients on a seperate subnet the ability to use & browse the samba server's
>shares.

>My smb.conf contains the following:

>wins support = yes
>domain master = yes
>local master = yes
>preferred master = yes
>remote announce = 129.78.179.255 129.78.153.255/CST

Are you sure this will work? AFAIK these are broadcasts and probably will not 
cross the router between your subnets. I would prefer to direct the remote 
announces directly to the browse master in the remote subnet.

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------
Robert.Dahlem at frankfurt.netsurf.de
Radio Bornheim - 2:2461/332 at fidonet +49-69-4930830  (ZyX, V34)
                 2:2461/326 at fidonet +49-69-94414444 (ISDN X.75)
---------------------------------------------------------------