[Samba] Cross subnet browsing

Charles Hamel charles at pingouin.ca
Wed Jun 30 16:11:44 GMT 2004


Jason,

Option A is the good way.

You could use remote browse sync according the the manpage since you only have
Samba servers. We have a mixed network here so it is not a solution. So your
configuration could be, anybody correct me if this is wrong :

For the 192.168.0.1 server :
remote browse sync = 192.168.2.1
wins support = yes


For the 192.168.2.1 server :
remote browse sync = 192.168.0.1
wins support = yes

The manpage doesn't mention that WINS is required for remote browse sync,
since it is based on the workgroup master browser. So maybe you don't need
WINS server at all.

Charles

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:53:02 -0400, Jason C. Waters wrote
> Charles,
>     The clients behind each gateway, do they point to the local wins 
> server then?  So for the clients on the 192.168.0.0 network, they 
> would point to 192.168.0.1, where samba is running a wins server and 
> announces to 192.168.2.255?  You have wins server = 192.168.1.50,
>  would I just have wins support = yes if its on the same machine?  
> Let me clear up what I'm trying to say.
> 
> Should my network look like this: Option A
> 
> Clients on network A(192.168.0.0) have a wins server of 
> 192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins server) 
> 192.168.0.1(Samba wins server with these settings, wins support = 
> yes, remote announce = 192.168.2.255) 192.168.2.1(Samba wins server 
> with these settings, wins support = yes, remote announce = 
> 192.168.0.255) Clients on network B(192.168.2.0) have a wins server 
> of 192.168.2.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins 
> server)
> 
> Or this: Option B
> 
> Clients on network A(192.168.0.0) have a wins server of 
> 192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins server) 
> 192.168.0.1(Samba wins server with these settings, wins support = 
> yes, remote announce = 192.168.2.255) 192.168.2.1(Samba wins server 
> with these settings, wins server = 192.168.0.1, remote announce = 
> 192.168.0.255) Clients on network B(192.168.2.0) have a wins server 
> of 192.168.2.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins 
> server)
> 
> Or this: Option C
> 
> Clients on network A(192.168.0.0) have a wins server of 
> 192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins server) 
> 192.168.0.1(Samba wins server with these settings, wins support = 
> yes, remote announce = 192.168.2.255) 192.168.2.1(Samba wins server 
> with these settings, wins server = 192.168.0.1, remote announce = 
> 192.168.0.255) Clients on network B(192.168.2.0) have a wins server 
> of 192.168.0.1(the vpn gateway for them as well as a samba wins 
> server)
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Charles Hamel wrote:
> 
> >Hi Jason,
> >
> >I have a similar setup and all I need to do was to enable ip directed
> >broadcast on the router and enter the following settings in smb.conf:
> >
> >wins server = 192.168.1.50
> >remote announce = 192.168.1.255
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Charles
> >
> >On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:23:18 -0400, Jason C. Waters wrote
> >  
> >
> >>I'm having a hard time figuring this one out.  I've done this before 
> >>when I had a PDC on one end of the VPN, and a BDC on the other.  
> >>This is what my setup looks like now.
> >>
> >>       Clients(XP)
> >>             |
> >>PDC(192.168.0.4), windows 2000
> >>             |
> >>             |
> >>WINS Server Samba(192.168.0.1), also the gateway for this network
> >>             |
> >>             |
> >>       Internet
> >>             |
> >>             |
> >>WINS Server Samba(192.168.2.1), also the gateway for this network
> >>             |
> >>             |
> >>     Clients(XP)
> >>
> >>With this setup I'm not sure how I'm suppose to setup each wins 
> >>server.  Do I need to have one on each subnet, and then have them 
> >>both remote announce and remote browse sync to each other?   Or 
> >>maybe some like that?  When I'm using remote announce, should it be 
> >>192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.0.255?  Same with remote 
> >>browse sync, does it need to be the actual address of the other wins 
> >>server?  or do I just send it to that subnet?  Does anyone have a 
> >>working configuration with this setup(Domain on one side of the 
> >>tunnel and just a workgroup on the other, both are the same 
> >>workgroup).   All the machines can ping each others ip, so I know 
> >>its not a tunnel issue.  Thanks for your guys help.
> >>
> >>Jason
> >>
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