On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:03, Will Parsons wrote: > Thanks to a response by private e-mail, I now have this working. Part of > the problem was that the netmasks were not the same on the QNX and the > WinNT machines. Fixing this allowed the samba shares to be seen by > Windows. However, smbclient still was unable to connect, I think because > the although the QNX machine and my local WinNT machine were on the same > subnet, the shared drive was still on the old subnet. Adding a "wins > server =" line the smb.conf then fixed the problem. > > One more question - I found a WINS server by running "net view" on the > Window machine and noticing that one of the servers had a "remark" > containing the string "Backup WINS". (There is nothing listed for WINS > server in the TCP/IP Properties.) Is there a better of determining WINS > servers? --- It's probably a good idea to have 1 but only 1 wins server on any subnet. There are remote browse/remote announce directives in smb.conf for communicating in additional subnets. Wins support = yes/true makes the specific smb server a wins server and all other windows machines should have the ip address for that specific smb server listed in the WINS Server tab in TCP/IP properties (advanced). Any other samba servers should have wins server = ip_address_of_wins_server as a directive.
Wins resolution is capable of finding the wins server without these specific addresses within a subnet but that will require that the machines aren't blocking broadcasts (firewall/packet filtering) and it's going to be slower to locate the wins server and of course, generates more network traffic. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba