First off, it sounds like what you have is a WINS issue, not a PDC issue. All you have to do is have a server designated as the 'WINS Server'
aside from other configuration items, smb.conf should have 'wins server = yes' on the other 2 subnets, have 1 machine / subnet act as a wins proxy wins proxy = <ip address of main WINS SERVER> Then they will forward their subnet's netbios info to the primary WINS Server. >From there, all you have to do is have all of your clients point their wins server to <IP Addres of main WINS Server> There is another solution that is a little easier, yet requires you to have a setup so that 1 machine can connect to all three subnets (3 nic cards).. In this case, just setup 'wins server = yes', and point all your clients to the appropriate ip address (you can point clients to a local subnet interface, or just point to one of the interfaces), and you will have a browseable network. Matt Schillinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:20, Ben Hall wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the process of trying to get a large network (300+ systems) spanning > 3 subnets to be able to display all windows machines in the Network > Neighborhood. After reading through copious amounts of documentation, using > Samba as a domain controller and then having systems on each subnet seemed > to be the best approach. > > I set one of the machines to be the domain controller for what was my > workgroup, and while all of my systems are visible to everyone on the > network, the browse lists for the rest of the network are still limited to > whatever subnet the client machine is on. > > At this point it looks as though I would have to set up a domain controller > for each of the 20+ workgroups. Of course this is infeasible. Am I missing > something? > > A few machines are set up to use and proxy WINS, one of my systems is acting > as the WINS server, this has had no noticeable effect on the network. > > Just to make things interesting, my network consists of just about every > version of Windows since 95, MacOS from version 7 to 10.2, Sun Solaris 8 and > the odd Linux machine. > > > Any help would be very much appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Ben > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Matt Schillinger System Administrator FlightSafety International [EMAIL PROTECTED] 314-551-8403 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
