[Samba] RE: Domain logins across subnets

[Paul McGrath]

Have you tried a test with the lmhosts file anyway?
P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Paul [mailto:jdppm7 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday 20 February 2007 14:14
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] RE: Domain logins across subnets
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The DC is acting as a WINS server and all clients are 
> assigned the WINS server via DHCP. I've even statically 
> assigned the WINS server and it does not work. 
> Name resolution works properly, so I don't think this could 
> be the problem.
> 
> Again, thanks.
> 
> > I have had this problem even with a MS Windows DC.  I now 
> have a OSX 
> > Panther server as my DC.  If you don't have a WINS server then you 
> > need to create a lmhosts file on each workstation.
> > 
> > Test it with one client and put the lmhosts file in the 
> > c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc folder There is one there already 
> > called lmhosts.sam so just take the file extension off then 
> add this 
> > line to the bottom
> > DC ip address	registered name		domain name
> > 111.111.111.111	dom-controller	#PRE #DOM:my-domain
> > Mine is 129.???.???.???	Cancer	#PRE  #DOM:cruk
> > 
> > This is on evevery PC anyway whether its on my subnet or not and it 
> > works.
> > 
> > Other people will come up with other suggestions but you'll spend 
> > hours at them and they probably wont work cos I did 8 years ago!
> > 
> > Regards
> > Paul
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