browsing across subnets

[Avantel Systems]

You need to make both samba servers domain master browsers.  And you're r=
ight
about the wins server - disconnects can cause odd behaviour - especially =
since
samba cannot (yet?) be a secondary wins server.

Alex @ Avantel

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> I've read through the BROWSING*.txt files in docs/textdocs and I think =
I set
> everything up right but I can't get this to work.
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> I am using IPSEC to connect two lans that are seperated by the internet=
 and
> use dsl lines for internet connection.  That is setup and working.  I c=
an
> ping from a client on one subnet to a client on another subnet with no
> problems.  One subnet is 192.168.3.0 and the other is 192.168.4.0
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> The 192.168.3.0 subnet has the workgroup of irish and the 192.168.4.0 h=
as
> the workgroup of msp.
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> I want both of these subnets to see both workgroups.  All clients are w=
in98
> and there is a samba server on each network that is also doing the ipse=
c and
> acting as the firewall(currently setup to accept everything).  Each sub=
net
> has the samba server setup as the WINS server for that subnet.
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> in the smb.conf file on 192.168.3.1 I added:
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>    remote browse sync =3D 192.168.4.1
>    remote announce =3D 192.168.4.1
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> and on 192.168.4.1 I added:
>    remote browse sync =3D 192.168.3.1
>    remote announce =3D 192.168.3.1
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> Any ideas how to solve this so that each subnet can see and use both
> workgroups.  Another question about the WINS servers, I read that it is=
 best
> if only one is used for both subnets.  If I do this and the link drops,=
 the
> subnet without samba setup for wins will of course no longer have a win=
s
> server.  Will this Win98, ME clients automatically start using broadcas=
t
> based name resolution when the WINS server becomes inaccessable?
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> TIA
> Andy Worthington