[Samba] Samba spanning subnets

[Matt Schillinger]

First off, it sounds like what you have is a WINS issue, not a PDC
issue.

All you have to do is have a server designated as the 'WINS Server' 

aside from other configuration items, smb.conf should have 'wins server
= yes'

on the other 2 subnets, have 1 machine / subnet act as a wins proxy

wins proxy = <ip address of main WINS SERVER> 

Then they will forward their subnet's netbios info to the primary WINS
Server.

>From there, all you have to do is have all of your clients point their
wins server to <IP Addres of main WINS Server>



There is another solution that is a little easier, yet requires you to
have a setup so that 1 machine can connect to all three subnets (3 nic
cards).. 

In this case, just setup 'wins server = yes', and point all your clients
to the appropriate ip address (you can point clients to a local subnet
interface, or just point to one of the interfaces), and you will have a
browseable network.

Matt Schillinger
mschilli at vss.fsi.com




On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:20, Ben Hall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am in the process of trying to get a large network (300+ systems) spanning
> 3 subnets to be able to display all windows machines in the Network
> Neighborhood.  After reading through copious amounts of documentation, using
> Samba as a domain controller and then having systems on each subnet seemed
> to be the best approach.
> 
> I set one of the machines to be the domain controller for what was my
> workgroup, and while all of my systems are visible to everyone on the
> network, the browse lists for the rest of the network are still limited to
> whatever subnet the client machine is on.
> 
> At this point it looks as though I would have to set up a domain controller
> for each of the 20+ workgroups.  Of course this is infeasible.  Am I missing
> something?  
> 
> A few machines are set up to use and proxy WINS, one of my systems is acting
> as the WINS server, this has had no noticeable effect on the network.
> 
> Just to make things interesting, my network consists of just about every
> version of Windows since 95, MacOS from version 7 to 10.2, Sun Solaris 8 and
> the odd Linux machine.
> 
> 
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
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Matt Schillinger
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FlightSafety International
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