Samba across subnets?

[Tim Winders]

I'm pretty sure the IP address syntax will only work for WinNT machines.
Win95 need to have the NetBIOS name.  You can create an LMHOSTS file with
the IP address of the remote machine on a Win95 machine and get the same
result.

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:

> Try to go to Start / Run... and type \\201.202.203.204\yourshare, placing your
> server's IP instead of 201.202.203.204 and a real share name instead of
> "yourshare". I was even able to connect to a VERY remote Samba server using this
> syntax.
> 
> []'s,
> Juan
> 
> Paul L. Lussier wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've recently set up a samba server, but just discovered that people
> > on the "other" side can't reach it.  The system shows up in Network
> > Neighborhood, but you can't double click on it.  It returns a message saying
> > that the server is either inaccessible, or that I misspelled the name
> > (How I did that with just one mouse click is beyond me ;)
> >
> > I had  'allow hosts' undefined, accepting the default of allowing all hosts,
> > and tried changing it to include the 2 subnets we have up here, but it didn't
> > seem to take any affect.  Is it trying to do a DNS resolution or something?
> > The system isn't in our local DNS server, only NIS.  And since I'm using
> > aliases with the system, they aren't in either DNS or NIS.  I would expect
> > it to resolve via netbios, since it is showing up in the NN browser!
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > --
> >
> > Seeya,
> > Paul
> > ----
> > plussier at baynetworks.com
> > Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel Company, Ay! :)
> >
> >         If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
> 
> 
> 
> 

=== Tim

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