[Samba] Wins, browsing, browse.dat and wins.dat

[Eric PEYREMORTE]

Yes, it has been configured via dhcp, and ipconfig shows primary wins 
server : 172.30.1.30

Why browse.dat doesn't load values from wins ? In my case it seems to do 
some broadcast for discovery. I thought the nmbd would get values from 
the wins for the network browsing.

Eric

John H Terpstra a écrit :
> On 11/16/2009 08:21 AM, Eric PEYREMORTE wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have troubles understanding wins and network browsing functionnality.
>>
>> I have a samba server(pdc) on a different subnet than my clients.
>>
>> The server smb.conf has wins support = Yes, the client are configured
>> to use the wins server.
>>
>> In the wins.dat, i can see all the computers.
>>
>> In the browse.dat i have only computers/servers that are in the same
>> subnet.
>>
>> When i try to browse the network via "network neighborbood" i only see
>> the computers that are in the same subnet ( the same that are in the
>> browse.dat )
>>
>> I've read the howto about wins, but can't understand how my computers
>> can be visible in the network neighborhood... I thought that setting a
>> wins server would be the solution but i think i'm wrong.
>>
>> Could someone helped me ?
>> ( I googled all the day for that ...)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>     
>
> Have you configured ALL you MS Windows clients TCP/IP settings to use
> the Samba WINS server?
>
> The Samba3-HOWTO has a fairly detailed chapter on network browsing. 
> What part of it does not make sense?
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf
>
> - John T.
>
>