remote announce problems (SAMBA digest 2034)

SATOH Fumiyasu fumiya at cij.co.jp
Mon Mar 29 05:31:24 GMT 1999


I'm not master of SMB network...

samba at samba.org wrote:
>Hi all.  I understood the 'remote announce =' parameter can be used to
>broadcast a samba server from one network to another.
>
>The format I am using is:
>
>	remote announce = a.b.c.255/GROUPNAME
>
>but it doesn't seem to be working.  What am I missing?

What subnet mask does your remote network have?
You can specify broadcast address to this parameter.

Or is there master browser of GROUPNAME on remote network?
If no, anyone doesn't listen to announcement.

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