more inter-subnet browsing wierdness
Barry, Christopher
cbarry at infiniconsys.com
Tue Dec 4 04:10:04 GMT 2001
> -----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
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