samba - Feb 2003 - Samba spanning subnets

Hello,

I am in the process of trying to get a large network (300+ systems) spanning
3 subnets to be able to display all windows machines in the Network
Neighborhood.  After reading through copious amounts of documentation, using
Samba as a domain controller and then having systems on each subnet seemed
to be the best approach.

I set one of the machines to be the domain controller for what was my
workgroup, and while all of my systems are visible to everyone on the
network, the browse lists for the rest of the network are still limited to
whatever subnet the client machine is on.

At this point it looks as though I would have to set up a domain controller
for each of the 20+ workgroups.  Of course this is infeasible.  Am I missing
something?  

A few machines are set up to use and proxy WINS, one of my systems is acting
as the WINS server, this has had no noticeable effect on the network.

Just to make things interesting, my network consists of just about every
version of Windows since 95, MacOS from version 7 to 10.2, Sun Solaris 8 and
the odd Linux machine.


Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,

Ben

First off, it sounds like what you have is a WINS issue, not a PDC
issue.

All you have to do is have a server designated as the 'WINS Server' 

aside from other configuration items, smb.conf should have 'wins server
= yes'

on the other 2 subnets, have 1 machine / subnet act as a wins proxy

wins proxy = <ip address of main WINS SERVER> 

Then they will forward their subnet's netbios info to the primary WINS
Server.
>From there, all you have to do is have all of your clients point their
wins server to <IP Addres of main WINS Server>



There is another solution that is a little easier, yet requires you to
have a setup so that 1 machine can connect to all three subnets (3 nic
cards).. 

In this case, just setup 'wins server = yes', and point all your clients
to the appropriate ip address (you can point clients to a local subnet
interface, or just point to one of the interfaces), and you will have a
browseable network.

Matt Schillinger
mschilli@vss.fsi.com




On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:20, Ben Hall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am in the process of trying to get a large network (300+ systems)
spanning
> 3 subnets to be able to display all windows machines in the Network
> Neighborhood.  After reading through copious amounts of documentation,
using
> Samba as a domain controller and then having systems on each subnet seemed
> to be the best approach.
> 
> I set one of the machines to be the domain controller for what was my
> workgroup, and while all of my systems are visible to everyone on the
> network, the browse lists for the rest of the network are still limited to
> whatever subnet the client machine is on.
> 
> At this point it looks as though I would have to set up a domain controller
> for each of the 20+ workgroups.  Of course this is infeasible.  Am I
missing
> something?  
> 
> A few machines are set up to use and proxy WINS, one of my systems is
acting
> as the WINS server, this has had no noticeable effect on the network.
> 
> Just to make things interesting, my network consists of just about every
> version of Windows since 95, MacOS from version 7 to 10.2, Sun Solaris 8
and
> the odd Linux machine.
> 
> 
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
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Matt Schillinger
System Administrator
FlightSafety International
mschilli@vss.fsi.com
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