Guys, is this an expected behavior? Unless you have WINS up (which causes issues with multihomed machines), one seemingly cannot synchronize browse lists across subnets.
--dave
Pedro Guedes wrote: > Browsing across subnets is well documented on the 2 main books > about Samba (the o´reilly one and the John D. Blair older > one - the first of all). > > I usually do not use WINS, even on W2K because > it does not work correctly on multihomed servers. > It binds on only one interface (the primary one if one can state > correctly which one it is - on 99% of the cases the one on the > lowest PCI slot). > One can read a couple of white papers from microsoft stating > just that, I think this is due to the NetBIOS name coupled > to the machine in contrast to the name coupled to the IP > interface, even in the NeBT world. > > What I tried to do is make samba win browse master elections > (in subnets away from the subnet where the PDC resides - it > always wins and without any local NT4 Backup Domain Controlller > or W2K Domain controller) based on the idea of the Unix server > being always on-line should always take the role despite the > presence of W98 & W2K Professional always coming and going.
> The idea is to change browse lists with the domain master > browser (the PDC or FSMO on W2K) so that browsing accross > subnets works for everybody. > > In fact Samba becomes the master browser on the LAN due to > higher values on election based on the setting "os level". > It wins over W2K Professional (the highest Windows on the LAN). > > But .... > Despite settings of "remote announce" ,"remote browse sync", > entries like 192.168.5.20 ISLA#1B in lmhosts > to talk to the PDC/FSMO (I known it says it only works with > other samba server) what the Domain Master Browser receives > is only the samba server itself, no neighbours listed at all. > > I have, since the early samba releases, noted this behaviour. > > So, what I do is make W2K Professional force and win browse > master election when it boots. > (look at HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\ for > the values > MaintainServerList - yes > IsDomaiMasterBrowser - yes > This way browse lists always propagate correctly to the > Domain Master Browser. > > This samba behaviour (or lack of it) is quite unfortunate > since the W2K Professionals are always coming and going making > subnets browsing quite unstable. > > It is strange that the samba servers have such poor behaviour > despite their phenomenal growth in the integration > Unix/Windows arena. > > A little bit more could be written about this. > If you have any sugestions they would be welcome. > This matter truly deserves an article somewhere. In O´reilly > web pages, on Linux/Windows Magazines. > Maybe a better writer than me could write a paper on it. > > > Pedro Guedes > > PORTUGAL > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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