JJB > Yan Seiner wrote: >> Yup. For small-ish networks, nt4 servers are 'good enough'. >> >> Last I checked, MS imposes an artificial limit on its servers, where a >> server can only serve its own subnet. Samba doesn't have this limit. >> So >> a single multi-homed samba server can do the work of several MS servers. >> >> So you don't need AD with samba as much since everything is on one >> server >> anyway whereas with MS you need multiple servers and all the management >> overhead that entails. >> >> I could be wrong on this; it was true the last time I ripped out a bunch >> of MS servers and replaced them with samba. This was some time ago.... >> Anyone know if it's still a limitation? >> >> > > As I understand it, you need a WINS server for every subnet - we figured > this out after the fact, so we now have 3 servers running Samba so that > everyone can see all members of the workgroups (we are rolling out the > domain slowly - in the meanwhile, we don't want to lose functionality. > If anyone has a written proceedure for how to get this working with only > one multi-homed server (does that mean one server with 1 network card > for each subnet, or one card with 3 addresses somehow associated with > it?) please post a link or email it to me.
It's been a while, so bear with me. You assign multiple IP addresses to your ethernet card: ifconfig eth0 192.168.128.1 ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.129.1 ifconfig eth0:2 192.168.130.1 and so on. You can also do this through your distro's network configuration. Then in smb.conf you tell samba to listen on those interfaces. I think that's it. You end up with one workgroup that different subnets can see. If you want different workgroups I think you can run multiple samba daemons with different interfaces set up and different workgroup names. You'd probably have to separate out all of the volatile files like *tbd, but I can't say. As long as the IP addresses are different this should not cause problems. ISTR I had to do some voodoo with wins forwarding but that may be because I had remote servers connected via VPN. Not written down in any detail but perhaps others can fill in. -- Windows is like a canary in a coal mine, it's the first thing to die on your network. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba