[Samba] Questions about PDC with SAMBA

[Ari Constancio]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Marcelo Opazo Vivallos
<amarzeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have 8 subnets:
> 192.168.100.x/24
> 192.168.150.y/24
> 192.168.200.z/16
> etc ...
>
> Install a Primary Domain Controller (PDC), so that
> users to perform authentication on the domain with its mounting
> remote disks, among others. The network is correctly configured,
> that is, the teams are perfectly by "ping" and the open
> ports between the networks see no problems.
>
> Notes:
> - I disabled the multicast UDP in the route
> - Add the lines in the smb.conf:
>  - Hosts allow = 192.168.100. 192.168.150. 192.168.200. [......]
> The others go right, because as I said it all works
> this, but only for the subnet.
> - Customers and resolve the server name netbios (wins OK)
>
> However, I encountered only heard the PDC requests only
> on its subnet (192.168.200.z).
>
> * Questions:
> - Why if the machines are visible between them they are not able to
> hear the requests to the PDC?
> - Is there another method instead of putting 8 samba servers in each subnet?
>
>
> Reggard
> Marcelo Opazo Vivallos
> Chile
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Hi Marcelo,

I'm not sure if it's a mistake, but I don't think your subnetting
scheme will work with the /16 overlapping /24s.

Ari Constancio