samba - Nov 1999 - Win clients on other subnets

Hello!

I have Samba 2.0.0 installed on an UltraSPARC server (Solaris 2.6, NIS). I only 
use Samba for file and printer sharing (I have about 15 Win-clients). My 
smb.conf is minimal. Everything works fine.

Now I want 5 more Win98-clients to use the Samba shares. However, these are on a
different subnet. When I try 'net view \\myserver' on one of these boxes
I get:

Error 51: The specified computer is not receiving requests.

(Note that there is apparently another box around called 
myserver.topdomain.country, whereas my Samba server is 
myserver.subdomain.topdomain.country. Is this a problem?)

Going through the diagnostics test, No. 5 fails:

myserver# nmblookup -B xxx.yyy.zzz.0 -d 2 '*'
Added interface ip=xxx.yyy.www.qqq bcast=xxx.yyy.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
Sending queries to xxx.yyy.zzz.0
name_query failed to find name *

xxx.yyy.www.qqq is the IP-address of the Samba server myserver and xxx.yyy.zzz 
is the other subnet on which the new machines are located. I don't really 
understand subnets and interfaces, so I am not sure if anything is wrong, or if 
it's just me being stupid. I have added the new boxes, as a NIS netgroup, to
the
'allow hosts' parameter. There is a Novell server in use on the other
subnet.
Can anyone give me some directions?

TIA,

Olof

PS. Be gentle, I'm only the sysadmin because I was the only one at my
department
who knew what 'grep' was for...

In a message dated: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 01:43:53 +1100
Olof Liungman said:
>Hello!
>
>I have Samba 2.0.0 installed on an UltraSPARC server (Solaris 2.6, NIS). I
>only use Samba for file and printer sharing (I have about 15 Win-clients).
>My smb.conf is minimal. Everything works fine.
>
>Now I want 5 more Win98-clients to use the Samba shares. However, these are
>on a different subnet. When I try 'net view \\myserver' on one of
these
>boxes I get:
Try setting up the Samba server as a WINS server and having the Win clients 
register with the Samba WINS server.  Everything should work that way.

I don't remember the smb.conf directives, but you can find them in the man 
page.  Look for something like "wins server" and "master
browser" and set them
to 'yes' or 'true'.  Make sure that you don't have any other
master browsers
or wins servers though.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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