[Samba] Cross Subnet WINS?

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Wed May 28 13:58:48 GMT 2003


On Wed, 28 May 2003, George Kasica wrote:

> Not sure if this would apply but a while ago in a Cisco router world,
> I need the command
>
> ip helper-address A.B.C.D <= Your SAMBA/WINS Server IP Address
>
> to get he various wins boxes to be seen across the network. I put one
> in for each WINS Server on each router and all was well.

Please can you explain how that works.

- John T.

>
> George
>
> >Have you walked through the DIAGNOSIS.txt troubleshooting guide?
> >This is test 8, I believe.
> >Joel
> >
> >On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:58:04PM -0500, ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a question about WINS across subnets. I am
> >> *not* interested in cross subnet browsing.
> >>
> >> SAMBASERVER is my PDC as well as WINS.
> >> I run "net view \\CLIENT" on a windows machine
> >> A which is on the same subnet as my SAMBASERVER
> >> and everything works fine.
> >> If I run the same command on a windows machine B
> >> on another subnet it does not work. The network
> >> interface on B has been configured to use SAMBASERVER
> >> (rather its IP address) as the WINS server.
> >>
> >> I dont know if this is important. But A is on a wired
> >> network, and B is on a wireless network.
> >>
> >> - Murali
> >>
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> George, MR. Tibbs, Nazerene, Ginger/The Beast Kasica(8/1/88-3/19/01, 1/17/02-)
> Jackson, WI USA
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