Dani Camps
2005-Mar-03 11:15 UTC
[Samba] Problems with WINS in multiple IP subnets enviroment
I have a Linux box with two interfaces for the private LAN (eth0,eth1) and another one connected to the Internet. I have two subnets in my LAN (192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24) and eth0 and eth1 are the gateways of either subnet (192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1). I have a Samba server running in the Linux box, and this Samba server is at the same time the local master browser and a WINS server, there is only one WINS server in the net. I am having some problems when trying to do SMB browsing between the two subnets, here I attach some of the relevant parts of my smb.conf in the Linux box: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- hosts allow=127. 192.168.0. 192.168.1. ... socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 ... interfaces=192.168.0.1/24 192.168.1.1/24 127.0.0.1/8 bind interfaces only=yes ... #To be the LMB local master = yes os level = 255 preferred master = yes ... #To be the WINS server name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast wins support = yes dns proxy = no ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since in the Linux box Samba is binded to both interfaces, .1.1 and .0.1, should I specify as a WINS server for the clients of each subnet the gateway, so 192.168.0.1 as a WINS server of 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.1 as a WINS server of 192.168.1.0/24 ? Or I could say in both WINS server 192.168.0.1 for instance ? Or this simply doesn't matter ? The IP routing is working perfectly between the two subnets, so I don't know why am I having problems, do u see any mistake in the configuration or sth that maybe I could have missed ? Thanks __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/