[Samba] NetBIOS across subnets

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at interia.pl
Tue Jan 18 15:54:59 GMT 2005


Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

>  > Currently 192.168.1.x is the CORP domain. Samba PDC is acting as the 
> WINS server.
>  >
>  > 192.168.2.x is the FURN server, and its Samba PDC is acting as its 
> WINS server.
> 
> 
> In my opinion, it is wrong.
> 
> On one server, set:
> 
> wins support = yes
> 
> On the other:
> 
> 
> wins server = 192.168.5.2  # (IP of the first one)
> wins proxy = yes

you will also have to allow certain hosts/subnets on each server:

hosts allow = 192.168.0. 192.168.5.2 127.0.0.1


Tomek


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