At Monday, 5 January 2004, "Jason Balicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
>>i am trying to configure a gateway to pass netbios information through >>between a 192.168.1.x/24 network and a 10.20.x.x/32 network. i have >>googled for a howto or other advice on how to configure smb.conf >>on debian linux w/ no luck. >> >>can anyone help me w/ suggestions or a link to a good howto? > >I'm not sure what you're asking. If you're trying to "browse" across >subnets without a WINS or DNS server it can't be done. You *must* >have a WINS server for the whole network, and each client must >register itself with that WINS server. > >Since you've got at least one Samba server, it can be your WINS >server. Simply put "wins support = yes" in the global section >of your smb.conf & point your client machines to use the ip >of your samba server as a WINS server. > it looks like this did the trick. thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba