Gateway problem

[John Weissberg]

We are just installing a new ADSL router. Our network is all PC with a
linux box with Samba which worked fine before we installed the new
router.

As part of the installation of the new router, I set-up a default
gateway IP address on the linux box using /sbin/route. All functions
such as PING and DNS lookup worked fine through the new router.

However, one we had defined the default gateway in the linux route
table, the Samba shares were no longer visible from PC clients. What is
more, from all the Windows clients, it was impossible to "Browse the
Network" or use "Network Neighborhood". Once I removed the default
gateway from the route table, Samba and the rest of the PC network
returned to visible and browsable from the PCs.

Samba is not defined as a WINS server for us.

Any help on diagnosing the problem would be appreciated.

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John Weissberg
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