[Samba] WINS over subnets

[John H Terpstra]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:23, Barry, Christopher wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 04:14 +0200, Hoggins! wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to make browsing work over several routed subnets, but
> > obviously, something goes wrong. Here's the situation :
> >
> >
> >
> > !-----------!
> > ! hgsserver ! (SAMBA HOST)
> > !-----------!
> >
> >       |192.168.2.0/24   !----------!      192.168.3.0/24
> >       |-----------------! wifigate !------------- - - -
> >       | 		       !----------!      (several wireless WinXP boxes)
> >
> > !--------------!
> > ! WinXP box    !
> > ! "hoggins"    !
> > !--------------!
>
> SNIP...
>
> > My browse.dat does not contain all I need, it just contains my machine
> > ("hoggins") and the server. I would like to have all the other hosts
> > that are on subnet 192.168.3.0/24. These hosts have received the
> > server's IP address as the WINS server in their DHCP transaction, and I
> > can see they communicate with it when doing an ethereal analysis.
> > But the browse list remains desperately empty from these hosts.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to solve this really annoying problem ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > 	Hoggins!
>
> For each host on 192.168.3.0/24, manually add in the WINS address of
> hgsserver in the wireless NIC configuration. Because WINS does not jump
> routers, you'll need to tell the client where to find this information.

Wrong! WINS uses directed UDP. Directed UDP is routable. Does your router pass 
directed UDP packets?

Check your wins.dat file on hgsserver to see if all clients have registered 
with the WINS server.

- John T.

>
>
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> Regards,
> Christopher Barry
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> SilverStorm Technologies, Inc.
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