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  From: Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  To  : Ryan Verner <xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:10:02 +0930

RE: Samba/Win2K - browse lists over different subnets

Hmm, doesn't samba have a wins proxy feature?

AG

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> Hiya,
> 
> I've done a bunch of wireless installs - each segment of the network 
> (i.e. the network behind the "router", being the AP/client) 
> has its own 
> subnet, say 10.10.20/24, 10.10.30/24, etc.  Everything's trunked over 
> pptp vpn's, not using NAT (real routing).  All is working 
> beautifully, 
> routing's great in the regard that everybody can talk to each other.  
> "Routers" are a mix of Debian machines running pptpd/pptpd-client, or 
> Windows 2K Server's.
> 
> Thing is, for obvious reasons (broadcast packets don't work over 
> vpn's/different subnet's) each Windows machine can't see Windows 
> machine's on the other subnet's.  If I type in the IP manually, say 
> \\10.10.20.51, I can go to that machine no problems.
> 
> I'd like to be able to collate browse lists between subnets - 
> I thought 
> this would be possible by setting up a wins server, and running samba 
> as a local domain master on each network "gateway" pointed 
> towards the 
> wins server, but alas, it doesn't appear to work.  The wins 
> server/"master network" (where all the pptp-client's are 
> connecting to) 
> is a Windows 2000 Server, acting as a PDC, so I'm not sure if 
> I perhaps 
> didn't set something up there properly either.
> 
> Documentation doesn't seem to tell me how to do this terribly 
> clearly, 
> either.
> 
> Anybody done this, or can point me in the right direction?
> 
> R
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