more inter-subnet browsing wierdness

[Barry, Christopher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth Mollett [mailto:garth at getsystems.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:36 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: more inter-subnet browsing wierdness
> 
> 
> We are seeing some strange inter-subnet browsing issues here, 
> our setup is
> as follows:
> 
> .129 subnet
> 
> 	[ samba box ]
> 	      |
> 	      |
> 	  [ router ]
> 	      ^
>  _.1 subnet _/ \_ .9 subnet_
> 
> 
> The .129 subnet contains only the samba server configured to 
> the letter from
> the browsing.txt file. The .1 subnet conists of win98 and 
> winME boxes all
> configured from DHCP to use the samba box for WINS lookups. 
> The .9 subnet
> consists of win2k boxes also all configured from DHCP to use 
> the samba box for
> WINS lookups.
> 
> All the machines on the .1 subnet see all the other .1 boxes 
> and SAMBA in the
> browse lists. Most of the machines in the .9 subnet see only 
> the other 
> machines in .9 in the browse list. A few random machines in 
> .9 (it seems to
> happen randomly to machines) see the machines in .1 and SAMBA 
> but no other
> machines in .9 (not even themselves) in the browse list.
> 
> All machines are in the same workgroup, we do not use domain 
> logons or have
> any win* machines doing anything other than acting as workstations.
> 
> Tcpdump output from all interfaces on the router shows all 
> machines are acting
> corectly and using SAMBA for WINS lookups and only one 
> machine has the 
> browse list on each subnet. All the win2k machines claim to 
> be "browser
> servers", unless I set the "maintain_browse_list" registry 
> key to be false, but
> AFAIK this is just setting if the machine can become a local 
> browse master and
> is not related to the bizzare behaviour we are seeing above.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Garth.
> 



Garth,
	Have you made sure only TCP/IP and Not NetBEUI are loaded on all
boxen?

-C