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I have a setup where a Vista machine that is behind a NAT connects to a Linux (debian) machine to access SMB shares on that machine. The connection is made with VPN using L2TP/IPSec. I have configured the Linux machine to act as WINS server and PPP will give the Vista machine a new IP on the same subnet and also tell Vista that the WINS server is the Linux machine. I have added one share

I have a network with several WORKGROUPS(lets call them X,Y and Z) in it and a samba server which is in one of the WORKGROUPS(X). I have enabled WINS support in samba and all client machines has WINS server IP configured that points to the samba server. Problem: When a browsning the network from a client I can only see a some nodes(or none at all) in WORKGROUPS Y and Z. Usally it takes 10-20 seconds to update the screen when I refresh. When I look in the wins.dat database I see lots nodes there that don't belong to WORKGROUP X. Is this normal behaviour? If not, how...