[Samba] Default route mandatory on a Samba member server?

[Rowland Penny]

On 17/01/2023 13:13, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
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> Op 17-01-2023 om 14:02 schreef Rowland Penny via samba:
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>> On 17/01/2023 12:49, Peter Milesson via samba wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Is a default route and gateway mandatory on a Samba member server?
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>> I would have thought they were mandatory on any computer, never mind 
>> Samba.
> 
> No, they are not required on any computer.
> 
> It is just to give you access to other networks than your own. And in 
> nearly al situations that is what you want.
> You probably need internet access (i.e. default route/gw) to install 
> samba (or do you have an apt-proxy in the local network?)...?
> 
> - Kees
> 
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>>> The AD DCs, the workstations and the Samba member server are on the 
>>> same network segment. As the member server only serves files to the 
>>> local network, I assume that neither gateway, nor default route are 
>>> necessary. For updates, gateway and default route could be defined.
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>> I am struggling to understand why you wouldn't set them (or want to), 
>> how is the computer supposed to connect to anything ?
>>
>> Rowland
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Perhaps you could get away with not setting the gateway, but surely you 
need to set the route ? Otherwise, how does the computer know which 
network device to use (even if you only have one) and what network to 
connect to.

I have in the past had instances of no connection to my local network 
when setting up a new machine and this always came down to the route not 
being set.

Rowland