G'day I was wondering if you could help me, and if I have everything correct. I am new to samba and am trying a very steep learning curve. I have two machines, Aries and Hermes in a college room at my univerisity. Aries is a Windows 2000 proffessional box and has one 10/100 NIC on 192.168.109.42, which has a cross over to Hermes (Debian Linux - woody , 2.4.0-test10) 10/100 NIC 192.168.109.10. Aries uses Hermes as a NAT/IP Masq box, of which Hermes has a second NIC configured to access at 10mb the external network of which I am a member of through DHCP assigned IP's. At this time 203.15.33.54, on the Union college subnet. External WINS server 192.168.40.17 Wins server for 203.15.33.* network and a few others. \ \ \ \ Hermes UNION Workgroup Debian (woody) UNION Workgroup Win9*/NT*/Linux 2.4 kernel test10 Win9*/NT*/Linux 203.15.33.1 --....-- 203.15.33.54 (eth0) --....-- 203.15.33.254 192.168.109.10 (eth1) | | | | Aries Windows 2000 --....-- Any other machines 192.168.109.42 I may wish to add ok, well I have my internal 100mb network and gateway/firewall setup YAY! All data going to and from aries, passes through hermes and the 1,30 and 254 machines are gateways and proxy's for the internet. The rest of the network exists on the other ip's. My internal network is running on 192.168.109.X and my external connection is through hermes on 203.15.33.54 at this time. Aaaanyway, for this cross subnet browsing to occur, I need a master browser in my room with access to the WINS server (192.168.40.17) , again I nominate Hermes which can see both subnets on 192.168.109.* and 203.15.33.*. How can I make Hermes and Aries both members of the main network workgroup ie 'UNION' and hermes be a master browser for the 192.168.109.X subnet only, and look towards the 203.15.33.X master browser externally? So Aries and Hermes are in Union workgroup at the moment, Hermes is not a local master and not the prefered master, its os level is 0. It is talking to the wins server (192.168.40.17) which is run at Leo's college. The WINS server combines for most people on the network non-NAT'ed the UNION, DUCHESNE, LEO's, WOMANS, and another or two colleges internal networks. Aries is also looking towards the wins server, through the NAT box. I should atleast see those of the computers talking to the WINS server shouldn't I? I am eeger to get this working, and its a interesting problem which I would like to overcome. I see hermes as a educational tool and network design issues such as this may come up in the future for my future career. Can I have hermes and aries both in Union workgroup, both viewing and viewable by the rest of the network even though aries, is infact on a internal ip behind hermes acting as NAT box? ________________________________________ | | | | | _ |\ Christian Bullow | | / |_| \ E12, Union College | | / x| University of Queensland | | | _ / Upland Rd. St.Lucia | | \_/ \_/ Australia | | \/ | | +61 7 3377 1571 | | +61 4 0962 1537 | |________________________________________|