samba - May 1999 - Browsing across subnets connected by a linux router without using WINS

Hi!

We have the following scenario:

Subnet 1
======Contains PDC for domain DOM1
all clients in this subnet belong to DOM1

Subnet 2
======contains PDC for domain DOM2
all clients in this subnet belong to DOM2

These two subnets are connected via a multihomed linux box set up as a
router between these subnets. IP routing definately works ok.

What we want to achive is, to have full NetBIOS connectivity between these
two subnets including browsing. The "official" way to do it seems to
have a
WINS server in each domain. For several reasons we don't want to use WINS
and so we have to have a way of relaying the NetBIOS name broadcasts and the
corresponding answers back and forth between those subnets.

A friend of mine hinted me on using Samba on the linux router, but I don't
see anything which does this in the Samba documentation.

Any ideas? I have to get this right very soon...


Best regards,
Daniel

Daniel Roesen wrote:
> 
> A friend of mine hinted me on using Samba on the linux router, but I
don't
> see anything which does this in the Samba documentation.
> What we want to achive is, to have full NetBIOS connectivity between these
> two subnets including browsing. The "official" way to do it seems
to have a
> WINS server in each domain. For several reasons we don't want to use
WINS
> and so we have to have a way of relaying the NetBIOS name broadcasts and
the
> corresponding answers back and forth between those subnets.
>
> Any ideas? I have to get this right very soon...
Check out the following parameters: remote browse sync, remote announce.
You shall also set up name resolution for both subnets (I recommend DNS,
it's fast and reliable, and you can run it on your router).

We use exactly the same setup at the company and it works OK.

Regards,

Michal