Wins server !!

[Moez]

Hi

I have my Lan1 which is connected to an another Lan2 by ISDN and cisco router. The Lan2 contain a NT server whith a domain, and a server wins for netbios resolution. So my goal is to see on the browser all computers of the two lan (Lan1 and Lan2). My Lan1 is not provided by a domain and I tried to use Wins server with samba on linux. For the pc i activated wins client with IP of the Wins server of Lan2, but nothing work !!!!

Someone can help me ?

Thanks

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Is this a M$ wins server or do you mean samba's implementation of the same thing, nmbd ?

Obviously, there needs to be IP connectivity for any of it to work but I'm guessing that the problem is that the clients can't resolve the samba box via wins because the samba box is not registering with that server. If that's the case you need to edit your smb.conf and put :

wins support = no
wins server = 172.16.16.1

(i.e. the IP address on the wins server on the other subnet)

If you have another wins server you should not run nmbd as this defeats the whole logic of having a single point of reference for netbios resolution. Samba can either be a wins client (above config) and post its' IP to an existing WINS server like every other box, OR a WINS server in which case the clients would need to point to its IP address in their network config for resolution.

Hope this helps