Hi everyone!
I have a subnet in a dormitory using IP masquerading, and it is
working fine. My only problem is that I can't browse the outer network
in a Microsoft machine inside. Here is the physical topology:
O WINS server of dormitory (152.66.148.10)
| It is also the Primary Domain Controller (Win NT 4.0 Server)
|
---------------------------- Network of the dormitory
| IP: 152.66.151.216 (eth0)
O Linux box (kernel 2.0.34, smbd version 2.0.2-19990209)
| IP: 192.168.1.1 (eth1)
---------------------------- Local network
| | |
O O O Microsoft Windows machines
The Linux box acts as an IP Firewall, and IP masquerades the inner
network. There is IPX/SPX bridging as well, so the outer Novel servers
are also accessibles. In the linux box runs the SMB server with WINS
support. The WINS works great. The Samba file server works great. If I
search inside for an outer computer, it appears in less than a second.
But when I browse the network I can see only the workgroups, and nothing
more. Indeed when I double click on one workgroup I have to wait about
one minute (!) to get the windows explorer resume working (and nothing
appears in the window of course). The Linux Box is set to be
interfaces = 152.66.151.216/22 192.168.1.1/24 (I have 2)
remote browse sync = 152.66.151.255 (the broadcast of the outer net)
remote announce = 152.66.151.255 (it is worth)
domain master = yes (to collate browse list from the dormitory's
network)
local master = yes (to be the local master in my workgroup)
preferred master = yes (to initiate election at startup)
os level = 64 (to win elections)
The Microsoft machines bind only the TCP/IP for Netbios services.
Since this is an experimental network, I can't ask the others to use
my WINS server outside. This makes the problem a little more complicated
(it would be simple to turn off that WinNT). I have read all the
relevant docs, but I don't know what to do. Can you help me, please?
Thanks in advance:
Jeney G?bor
When the world was young, Jeney Gabor <dejou@sch.bme.hu> carved some runes like this:> I have a subnet in a dormitory using IP masquerading, and it is > working fine. My only problem is that I can't browse the outer network in > a Microsoft machine inside. Here is the physical topology: > > O WINS server of dormitory (152.66.148.10) > | It is also the Primary Domain Controller (Win NT 4.0 Server) | > ---------------------------- Network of the dormitory | IP: > 152.66.151.216 (eth0) O Linux box (kernel 2.0.34, smbd version > 2.0.2-19990209) | IP: 192.168.1.1 (eth1) > ---------------------------- Local network | | | O O O > Microsoft Windows machines > > The Linux box acts as an IP Firewall, and IP masquerades the inner > network. There is IPX/SPX bridging as well, so the outer Novel servers are > also accessibles. In the linux box runs the SMB server with WINS support. > The WINS works great. The Samba file server works great. If I search > inside for an outer computer, it appears in less than a second. But when I > browse the network I can see only the workgroups, and nothing more. Indeed > when I double click on one workgroup I have to wait about one minute (!) > to get the windows explorer resume working (and nothing appears in the > window of course).[snip] I'm no samba expert (and NT is largely an unknown to me) but I think you would need to either add an external WINS server (ie, one outside your firewall) or have another samba box to collect browse list data on the other side of the firewall. Assuming your ip-masq box is passing the UDP stuff appropriately (ports 138 & 139 ?). As far as browsing across subnets (with a firewall in between yet), you might need to sync your samba server with another one on the other side. Even NT can't do some of the stuff samba can... Try it and see... Steve ****************************************************************** Stephen L Arnold http://www.rain.org/~sarnold #include <std_disclaimer.h> ******************************************************************