[ale] samba

[Andrew Newton]

Samba puts SMB protocol into NetBIOS over TCP/IP.  If I understand
your problem, its really not specific to Samba.  Most IP routers do
not send a broadcast from one subnet to another.  If they did, it would
be bad and the world would collapse upon its knees.

Fortunately, the guys that did Samba thought of this and there is a
work around.  You can list the IP subnets you want to know the existance
of other machines by listing them in the "remote announce" entry in the
Global section of the nmb.conf file.

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> From: David Hamm <dhamm at itserve.com>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] samba
> Date: Friday, January 31, 1997 8:07 AM
> 
> Does any one know why samba's broadcasts don't route?  If I'm
> on a W95 box on the same network as the desired server then the server's
name is
> shown in the Network Neighborhood.  If I look at another W95 box not on
that
> network then I dont see the samba macine.  
> And yes the server knows what it's default route is.
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> E-Mail: David Hamm <dhamm at itserve.com>
> Date: 31-Jan-97
> Time: 11:07:42
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