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  From: Andrew Galdes <AGaldes@elders.com.au>
  To  : Ryan Verner <xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:19:16 +0930

RE: Samba/Win2K - browse lists over different subnets

Ryan,

Google says that this may be a go'er...

remote browse sync = a.b.c.d

AG.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Verner [mailto:xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:15 AM
> To: Andrew Galdes
> Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: Re: Samba/Win2K - browse lists over different subnets
> 
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> On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 11:10 AM, Andrew Galdes wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, doesn't samba have a wins proxy feature?
> 
> Perhaps, I've got absolutely no idea how to use it though. :(
> 
> R
> 
> > 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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