samba - Nov 1998 - Question w/intranet and internet

Greetings,

We are using a private class B behind a firewall for about 15 months and
all is well using Samba.  However I notice a strange problem:

When the real Internet is down (namely our router to the internet) the
samba boxes (all of which are behind the firewall) do not function correct
(at a minimal no domain logons for 95/98)


Router(Gateway for real internet)   =====|firewall|======= Intranet
172.16.xxx.xxx 						2 interfaces			mask 255.255.0.0
						routing traffic 

I find this problem interesting because I am sure somebody is running Samba
with no internet at all somewhere(hence, no router)

Intranet Samba boxes running 1.9.18.p3

Again everything is Great! until router for the Internet is taken offline.

Thoughts Welcome:)





Richard Nelson
Technology Director
Research & Development Director
System Administrator
Mountain Grove R-III Schools
420 N. Main
Mountain Grove, MO 65711
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This sounds like a problem I had with windows if a nameserver is enabled but
not accessable. Windows tried DNS before NETBIOS. I got lazy and setup a
simple nameserver (on the samba box) which all the windows pc point to.

This can be changed by changing priorities in the registry, but maybe
there's an even better solution?

Regards,

Andrew Dennison
Engineering Manager - MoTeC Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: samba@samba.org [mailto:samba@samba.org]On Behalf Of Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, 24 November 1998 1:12
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Question w/intranet and internet


Greetings,

We are using a private class B behind a firewall for about 15 months and
all is well using Samba.  However I notice a strange problem:

When the real Internet is down (namely our router to the internet) the
samba boxes (all of which are behind the firewall) do not function correct
(at a minimal no domain logons for 95/98)