samba - Oct 1997 - WINS, routers, and SAMBA

Hi all, first time caller, long time listener,

I've read all the .txt files (I swear) and I've searched the archives
but I
still cannot get my poor users on two other remote segments to see my samba
server.

I reside on one LAN, the other two are in Europe, each one connected to my
LAN via CISCO routers. Given that the two other subnets are abroad, it's
real hard to test all this, so I'd appreciate any help from y'all.

Briefly:

 (SMB & Domain Master & Local Master)
  (& Preffered Master & os Level 66)
       (& WINS support yes)
              ----------    ------     ------     --------
              | *UNIX* |    |unix|     |unix|     |PC(95)|
  Segment A   ----------    ------     ------     --------
   (192.9.200.*)  |____________|_________|___________|
                          |                      |
                          |(56K Line)            |(56K Line)
                        Router                 Router
  Segment B (192.9.205.*) |                      |  Segment C (192.9.206.*)
              ____________|_____            _____|_______________
            _|_      _|_      _|_        _|_        _|_        _|_
           |PC1|    |PC2|    |PC3|      |PC1|      |PC2|      |PC3|
            ---      ---      ---        ---        ---        ---
         (All WIN 95) ---------------------------------------------->
           

Can't even do a net view \\[samba server] from the remote segments

  * I think I've set up my smb.conf OK. Other UNIX machines and PC's on
    segment A (that have set their WINS server to samba) can see the server, 
  * my routers are not (I don't think) forwarding broadcast packets (and I
    don't think that would be very smart, anyway, even though I only have
    about 10 users on each segment) but I did set the primary WINS server on 
    the PCs in seg B and C to the samba server (and have wins support = yes
    in the conf),
  * I added interfaces in the conf to the remote IP addresses above, but
    no PCs on the remote segments can see the samba server in their net
    neighborhood.

Should I use DNS instead of (or in addition to WINS)?
Am I missing some intermediary thing here?
It all sounded so easy in the docs... :)

Am I completely off or am I on the right track?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Harry

Market News Service Inc., hford@economeister.com

> Hi all, first time caller, long time listener,
> 
> I've read all the .txt files (I swear) and I've searched the
archives but I
> still cannot get my poor users on two other remote segments to see my samba
> server.
> 
> Can't even do a net view \\[samba server] from the remote segments
> 
>   * I added interfaces in the conf to the remote IP addresses above, but
>     no PCs on the remote segments can see the samba server in their net
>     neighborhood.
Don't do that. Only interfaces that are physically connected to the
Samba box should be in the interfaces= line.

Make sure you are running 1.9.17 or later. Make sure all
machines are in the same workgroup. Make sure that you don't
have a 'wins server =' line on the wins server. Use tcpdump to
see whether any traffic on ports 137, 138 and 139 is arriving
from the remote nets. Make sure the routers are not blocking
or firewalling or spoofing Netbios. Make sure there are no
machines at all running older versions of Samba.

Look in the wins.dat and browse.dat file to see what the Samba
server thinks is the situation.
> Should I use DNS instead of (or in addition to WINS)?
You shouldn't need that.

-- 
Erik Corry ec@sign-tronic.dk - I do not speak for Sign-Tronic A/S