BACKGROUND --------------------- I have a system running Red Hat 7.1 (2.4 kernel) that I've set up on a local subnet to server as a router to the outside world, including the Internet. IP forwarding and NAT work just fine on the TCP/IP level. Outside World [10.11.0.0 network] 10.11.0.1 | |---- 10.11.0.2 Win2K MYGROUP | |---- 10.11.0.95 Win95 MYGROUP | |---- 10.11.0.98 Win98 MYGROUP | \ | \__ SHARED PRINTER |eth1 10.11.0.40 LinuxRouter MASQUARADE (NAT) (kernel 2.4) |eth0 | 192.168.0.98 ------- 192.168.0.95 AnotherWin98 AnotherWin95 MYGROUP MYGROUP No system is currently configured to run WINS services. GOAL -------- Have the windows systems on the 192.168.0.0 subnet (no W2K systems) be able to browse each other AND the machines on the same MYGROUP workgroup name on the other side of the net for Network Neighborhood. In particular access the 10.11.0.98 shared printer. It would be nice if the machines on the 10.11.0.0 network could browse the 192.168.0.98 machines. NOTE: this is a small network and nobody on the 10.11.0.0 network runs WINS. NOTE: what I've shown as 10.11.0.0 is really a subnet with public IP addresses. We want to move as many machines as possible from the public addresses the 192.168.0 network. The immediate goal is to get browsing and printer access working. After that there will be breathing room to play with other configurations. QUESTIONS ---------- o Do I need to increase the os level to a larger value? 20? o Would the 10.11.0.40 Linux host use accept NetBIOS commands from both eth0 and eth1? INFORMATION ----------- Here is the latest smb.conf file (that doesn't work). Right now I can not even have 192.168 clients login into the windows 10.11 network. [global] workgroup = MYGROUP netbios name = MYNETBIOS server string = %h samba security = SERVER ssl CA certFile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 0 local master = No dns proxy = No guest account = guest hosts allow = 10.11.0.0/255.255.255.128, 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.128 (yes, 128) printing = lprng ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ghealton@exit109.com http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------