[Samba] help: new ip range

John Benedetto jbenedet at unm.edu
Thu Mar 21 06:32:10 GMT 2002


Do you have a WINS server set up?  I think that would solve your problem. 
Set the Samba server to act as WINS server (assuming the organization 
doesn't have one, otherwise, point both the server & the clients to the 
existing one).

- john

--On Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:16 AM -0500 Cyber Dog 
<cyberdog at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

>
> Previously, my samba server had been operating in the same immediate IP
> range as the clients using it. Both samba and clients had static ip
> addresses of xxx.yyy.230.zzz.  Just recently, the organization using the
> systems converted to a DHCP system for all the clients.  Now, the samba
> server remains with its original static xxx.yyy.230.zzz address.  The
> clients, however, are now assigned addresses in the xxx.yyy.152.zzz
> address range (both are used by the organization).  The problem is these
> clients are now giving the error that they can't locate the domain
> server, and thusly they aren't logging onto Samba.




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