[Samba] Samba Problem

[Alexey Lobanov]

Hi.

On 13 Oct 2003 at 14:23, Sampath Ganji wrote:

>  From the clients behind the router... everything (Internet, E-mail) is 
> okay. And also telnet 192.168.0.2 works good. But when the samba server 
> is searched from the Client (192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.3 both running 
> windows XP) it fails.

Surely. By default routers do not pass broadcast packets, and "browsing" uses 
broadcast in absence of WINS or DNS server. See docs/textdocs/BROWSING.txt for 
details.

> Does it have to do anything with samba?

Enable WINS in Samba (RTFM), and configure 192.168.0.1 as WINS server in all 
clients. Either manually or via DHCP.

Alexey