[Samba] Wins, browsing, browse.dat and wins.dat

[Eric PEYREMORTE]

Hi,

I have troubles understanding wins and network browsing functionnality.

I have a samba server(pdc) on a different subnet than my clients.

The server smb.conf has wins support = Yes, the client are configured to
use the wins server.

In the wins.dat, i can see all the computers.

In the browse.dat i have only computers/servers that are in the same subnet.

When i try to browse the network via "network neighborbood" i only see
the computers that are in the same subnet ( the same that are in the
browse.dat )

I've read the howto about wins, but can't understand how my computers
can be visible in the network neighborhood... I thought that setting a
wins server would be the solution but i think i'm wrong.

Could someone helped me ?
( I googled all the day for that ...)

Thanks,
Eric
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[John H Terpstra]

On 11/16/2009 08:21 AM, Eric PEYREMORTE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have troubles understanding wins and network browsing functionnality.
>
> I have a samba server(pdc) on a different subnet than my clients.
>
> The server smb.conf has wins support = Yes, the client are configured
> to use the wins server.
>
> In the wins.dat, i can see all the computers.
>
> In the browse.dat i have only computers/servers that are in the same
> subnet.
>
> When i try to browse the network via "network neighborbood" i only see
> the computers that are in the same subnet ( the same that are in the
> browse.dat )
>
> I've read the howto about wins, but can't understand how my computers
> can be visible in the network neighborhood... I thought that setting a
> wins server would be the solution but i think i'm wrong.
>
> Could someone helped me ?
> ( I googled all the day for that ...)
>
> Thanks,
> Eric

Have you configured ALL you MS Windows clients TCP/IP settings to use
the Samba WINS server?

The Samba3-HOWTO has a fairly detailed chapter on network browsing.
What part of it does not make sense?
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-HOWTO.pdf

- John T.

[Eric PEYREMORTE]

Yes, it has been configured via dhcp, and ipconfig shows primary wins
server : 172.30.1.30

Why browse.dat doesn't load values from wins ? In my case it seems to do
some broadcast for discovery. I thought the nmbd would get values from
the wins for the network browsing.

Eric

John H Terpstra a écrit :

[ZeWaren / Erwan Martin]

I had the same problem. To get the computers from a subnet to show in
browse.dat, you must have a samba configured as local master in that
subnet, so that it manages and relays to the domain master the list of
computers of the subnet.
If you are in workgroup and not in a domain, the windows computers won't
synchronize their lists by themselves.

And since I couldn't have samba installed in all my subnets, I had to
manually synchronize browse.dat with wins.dat (It's a bit ugly but it
works fine).

Erwan.

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