[Samba] Re: WINS over subnets

John H Terpstra jht at primastasys.com
Tue Oct 3 03:21:02 GMT 2006


On Thursday 28 September 2006 12:00, Hoggins! wrote:
> Barry, Christopher a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 04:14 +0200, Hoggins! wrote:
> > SNIP...
> >
> > 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.
>
> Well, I already did that. It's not manually added, but it's sent through
> DHCP. I checked that every machine on 192.168.3.0/24 had the correct info.
> So I don't really think the problem comes from the clients, but from the
> server instead. My firewall is apparently not the problem, because it
> blocks nothing on this side.

Ah! Does your DHCP settings include "option netbios-node-type 8"?

- John T.

> My opinion is that my server configuration is faulty. Did you have a
> look at it, and did you find errors ? I'm actually thinking of starting
> from scratch, but I'm not even sure this will solve my problems
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> If anyone can help me on this, it would be wonderful.
>
> 	Hoggins!



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