Cannot access network (NT, 95. Linux) resources from NT

[Tim Winders]

Umar -

You don't say whether your 95 workstations are getting an IP address from
the 192 or the 208 network.  Is the 192 network on the PPP interface or
the ethernet interface?  Is the 192 and 208 networks a shared network?
Which dhcp server are you running under Linux?  The ISC dhcpd server can
give a WINS server address (option netbios-name-servers 208.222.17.11).

>From your description, I would guess the 95 workstations are getting a 192
address and the Linux box is not acting as a router passing those packets
to the 208 network.  You netstat listing doesn't give the IP addresses to
be sure.

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Umar Murtaza wrote:

> Our network has a Linux Server, NT Server and Windows 95 
> workstations, with the following configurations:
> 
> Linux Internet Server:
> 	  IPaddress:			192.168.5.1
> 	  Primary WINS Server:	208.222.17.11 (NT Server)
> 	  Subnet Mask:			255.255.255.0
> 
> NT Server:
> 	IPaddress:			208.222.17.11
> 	Gateway:				192.158.5.1 (Linux Internet Server)
> 	Primary WINS Server:	208.222.17.11 (itself)
> 	Subnet Mask:			255.255.255.0
> 
> Windows 95 Workstations:
> 	Running on DHCP (Linux Server has dhcp configured)
> They have a valid IP address, gateway IP address, Subnet Mask, but 
> no Primary WINS Server (whereas it should show NT Server as Primary 
> WINS Server, its there in smb.conf file of Linux server). This is the 
> output of "winipcfg" command of windows 95.
> 
> Samba is configured at Linux Server.
> 
> output of route command at linux server is:
> 
> # route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destn     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref   Iface
> 208.222.17.11	*	255.255.255.255	UH	0	0	eth0
> 255.255.255.255  *	255.255.255.255	UH	0	0	eth0
> ISP		*		255.255.255.255	UH	0	0	ppp0
> localnet	*		255.255.255.0		U	0	0	eth0	
> loopback	*		255.0.0.0			U	0	0	lo
> default	ISP		0.0.0.0			UG	0	0	ppp0
> 
> 
> All windows95 workstations can see each other and the linux 
> server, plus they can browse and share their shared resources on the 
> local network.. All machines including the windows 95 workstations NT 
> server and the Linux Server can ping each other and also gives the 
> correct tracert/traceroute results.
> 
> Problem is:
> 1. All workstation cannot see NT Server in the "Network 
> Neighbourhood", also "find a computer" cannot find the ntserver.
> 2. NTServer can see all the workstations plus the linux server in 
> "Network Neighbourhood". Can use the shared resources (directories 
> and files) of the Linux Server but cannot access the shared resources 
> of the windows 95 workstations. It gives an error "\\workstation is 
> not accessible" and "The network path was not found" if i try to 
> access them.
> 

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