samba - Nov 2009 - Wins, browsing, browse.dat and wins.dat

Hi,

I have troubles understanding wins and network browsing functionnality.

I have a samba server(pdc) on a different subnet than my clients.

The server smb.conf has wins support = Yes, the client are configured to 
use the wins server.

In the wins.dat, i can see all the computers.

In the browse.dat i have only computers/servers that are in the same subnet.

When i try to browse the network via "network neighborbood" i only see
the computers that are in the same subnet ( the same that are in the 
browse.dat )

I've read the howto about wins, but can't understand how my computers 
can be visible in the network neighborhood... I thought that setting a 
wins server would be the solution but i think i'm wrong.

Could someone helped me ?
( I googled all the day for that ...)

Thanks,
Eric

On 11/16/2009 08:21 AM, Eric PEYREMORTE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have troubles understanding wins and network browsing functionnality.
>
> I have a samba server(pdc) on a different subnet than my clients.
>
> The server smb.conf has wins support = Yes, the client are configured
> to use the wins server.
>
> In the wins.dat, i can see all the computers.
>
> In the browse.dat i have only computers/servers that are in the same
> subnet.
>
> When i try to browse the network via "network neighborbood" i
only see
> the computers that are in the same subnet ( the same that are in the
> browse.dat )
>
> I've read the howto about wins, but can't understand how my
computers
> can be visible in the network neighborhood... I thought that setting a
> wins server would be the solution but i think i'm wrong.
>
> Could someone helped me ?
> ( I googled all the day for that ...)
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
Have you configured ALL you MS Windows clients TCP/IP settings to use
the Samba WINS server?

The Samba3-HOWTO has a fairly detailed chapter on network browsing. 
What part of it does not make sense?
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf

- John T.