Hi. I have Samba set up to serve W95 PCs. Kids "log in to the network" using their Unix password. Students get their Unix home dir mounted as network drive X: when login is successful. This all happens on IP subnet 192.168.1.1/24 So far, so good. We are thinking about adding another IP subnet - say 192.168.2.1/24. Of course, the two subnets will be connected with a router. It is unlikely the router will be the machine running Samba. Will the new W95 machines in the new IP subnet (192.168.2.1/24) be able to use the Samba Server on the old subnet (192.168.1.1/24) ? Anything special I have to do? The Unix machine that runs Samba also runs DNS and is our gateway to the internet. We have no immediate plans for getting NT Server, although I can see a few NT Workstations as a possibility. Eddie.
> > 2) Logging on to the network - one samba, two subnets. > by "Eddie Irvine" <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>> Will the new W95 machines in the new IP subnet > (192.168.2.1/24) be able to use the Samba > Server on the old subnet (192.168.1.1/24) ?Yes.> > Anything special I have to do?The router needs to forward the appropiate broadcasts. On a CISCO this is the 'ip helper' command. I have machines on three subnets, seperated by CISCO gear, and all that was done was to configure the routers. For Samba/SMB, the appropiate name resolution broadcasts need to be forwarded. I have machines on the other end of a 2mb microwave link and ATM network logging in fine, and the only thing done for that was a 'ip helper {address of server} on the remote network's router. I assume most other routers have similar functionality.
I've finally gotten 2 subnets working without forwarding broadcasts between nets, but only by using WINS on the NT PDC. This might work equally well with a Liniux Samba PDC. (The 2nd subnet is also proxied using IPMASQ). -- Bill Eldridge Radio Free Asia bill@rfa.org