[Samba] domain master list - cross subnet?

[Alexander Lazarevich]

I'll rephrase the question:

Does anyone, using samba 3 as a PDC master browser on a subnet, see 
other subnet's on the WAN?

For instance, if your subnet is dude.udump.edu, can your samba master 
browse list see the windows domain chick.udump.edu (assuming it exists)?

If I just know it's possible, then I know I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks,

Alex

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Alexander Lazarevich wrote:

> samba-3.0.10-1.4E on RHEL4-AS. I've got a test domain setup and working just 
> fine. Windows XP clients are authenticating just fine. The only problem I 
> have so far is my domain browser list is not correct. I can see everything in 
> my subnet fine, but can't see anything outside my subnet. This is different 
> than my NT4 domain, who's browse list shows me every domain within the larger 
> campus domain (WAN), which are a lot of domains outside of my subnet. So my 
> question is, how do I get my samba domain browse list to behave like my NT4 
> domain browse list does and get the list from the WAN?
>
> Is a samba domain master browser supposed to be able to get browse lists from 
> accross subnets? If not, is there any way to force a samba domain to collect 
> browse lists from outside it's subnet? We have many users who need to access 
> domains outside our subnets, and they need to be able to browse to it.
>
> My samba is the master browser and there is no other domain master in the 
> X-TEST domain. Anyway, os level=65 should take care of that even if there 
> were.
>
> I've also read chapter 9 of the samba how to, and I'm doing everything in 
> there according to plan, I think. The thing that scares me is: "Failing a 
> complete restart, the only other thing you can do is wait until the entry 
> times out and is then flushed from the list. This may take a long time on 
> some networks (perhaps moths)." Ouch. I hope I don't have to wait a month for 
> nmbd to collect the browse list from all the WINS hosts on campus???
>
> Additional info: we don't have a WINS server on our subnet, we point all our 
> clients to a two WINS servers, both outside of our subnet, and that works 
> fine with NT4 and samba domains.
>
> Here is my smb.conf global:
>
> [global]
>   workgroup = X-TEST
>   username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>   map to guest = Bad User
>   logon drive = z:
>   logon path =
>   logon script = x-test-logon.bat
>   security = user
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   server string = X-TEST Samba Domain
>   netbios name = xxx-x
>   add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s 
> /bin/false %m
>   domain master = yes
>   domain logons = yes
>   local master = yes
>   preferred master = yes
>   wins server = XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (a wins server on a different subnet)
>   hosts allow = XXX.XXX XXX.XXX (allowing IP's from campus wide subnets)
>   os level = 65
>   log level = 3
>   max log size = 0
>   log file = /var/log/samba/XXX-X-samba.log
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex
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