samba - Aug 1999 - Posting to browselists in other subnets?

Hi everyone,

I'm running Samba 1.9.18p10 and it works great. But I can't get it to
announce to other subnets that are on the other side of a router. I've
added "remote announce = 192.168.1.255" to smb.conf (my machine is in
192.168.0.0 subnet) and there are no other NT machines in any of the
subnets. What should I look for?

Thanks,

Joe

Joseph,
> I'm running Samba 1.9.18p10 and it works great. But I can't get it
to
> announce to other subnets that are on the other side of a router. I've
> added "remote announce = 192.168.1.255" to smb.conf (my machine
is in
> 192.168.0.0 subnet) and there are no other NT machines in any of the
> subnets. What should I look for?
Well, the only way that this will work is if 192.168.1.255 is holding
the browse list.  The option 'os level' is your friend here and setting
it to a higher number on the remote machine will assure it of winning an
election when it comes up.  If the machine on the other end is running
Samba, try querying it with

smbclient -L 192.168.1.255 -U username

This will tell you which machines are on the browselist on the remote
subnet and also which machine is controlling it.
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Hi Joe,

many routers don't send broadcasts (.255) over the interfaces. As Scott
intended, try:
smbclient -L 192.168.1.255 -U username.

If this doesn't work, try to use the ip adress of the browse master on the
other subnet like: "remote announce = 192.168.1.10" (assuming
192.168.1.10
would be the adress of the other browse master).

We have an similar scenery like you:
a subnet 10.0.0.0 and a net 10.1.0.0 connected by a router.
On subnet 10.0.0.0 the samba server "A-Samba" (ip 10.0.0.1) is
configured as
the whole browse master via "wins support = yes". It announces the
browse
list
"remote browse sync = 10.1.0.23", where "10.1.0.23" is a
samba server,
"B-Samba", on the other subnet. With "wins server =
10.0.0.1" (means
A-Samba) and
"remote browse sync = 10.0.0.1" the browse lists are exchanged. So
every
client an every subnet sees all connected machines.

Hope this helps
Rudi


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> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: samba@samba.org [mailto:samba@samba.org]Im Auftrag von Joseph
> Santaniello
> Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 25. August 1999 18:27
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> Betreff: Posting to browselists in other subnets?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running Samba 1.9.18p10 and it works great. But I can't get it
to
> announce to other subnets that are on the other side of a router. I've
> added "remote announce = 192.168.1.255" to smb.conf (my machine
is in
> 192.168.0.0 subnet) and there are no other NT machines in any of the
> subnets. What should I look for?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>