[Samba] Cross subnet browsing

[Jason C. Waters]

I have it setup that way, with the clients behind each gateway to use 
the gateway as their wins server.  But I can't see them through my 
network places.  Any ideas?  How long does it take to sync?  Can I force 
it to sync?   Thanks for your help.

Jason

Charles Hamel wrote:

>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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