[Samba] Browsing a across subnets

[Lance Levsen]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 20:28, robin-lists at robinbowes.com wrote:
> I have installed SAMBA on Server 2 and would like to be able to browse
> shares on Server 2 from both Client 1 and Client 2.
> 
> Can anyone point me at any resources that might help me work this out?

According to O'Reily's "Using Samba" there are 3 rules for browsing
across subnets:

You must have a local master browser on each subnet in the domain.

You must have  a domain master browser somewhere in the domain

You should have a WINS server on the network with each system configured
to use it. 

These are generally set with the election process.

domain master browser (ideally the PDC):

[global]
domain master = yes
os level = 255
preferred master = yes
local master = yes 
remote browse sync = <space separated ip addy's of other local masters>
(although I'm not sure if the last is necessary on the domain master)


local master browsers:

[global]
preferred master = yes
os level = 33 
local master = yes
remote browse sync = <space separated ip addy's of other local masters> 

> Thanks,
> 
> R.

Cheers,
lance
-- 
Lance Levsen, Catprint Computing
Linux Systems and programming
Saskatoon, SK., CA.
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