[plug] Masq. and Samba

[Kent Ian]

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>At the risk of doing a "Leon" (reference to five emails in five minutes).
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>Does anyone have any ideas if Samba will work through a masq box?

Never tried. It will be interesting to follow this one through.

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>As far as I can determine, I will need to run Samba on the masq box to act 
>as a WINS server. The premise is that SMB being a broadcast based 

I believe that using WINS for name resolution is connection oriented. You must 
also concern yourself with browse list propagation.

You may also need to configure Samba as the Master Browser for the subnets it 
looks after (if there are not NT servers there). 

If there is a WinNT Domain Controller it must be the Domain Master Brouser.

To work out the setup we need to know if there are existing NT servers, what's 
on each subnet,etc ...

>protocol (at least to discover servers) I need something on the "bridge" to 
>collect the information.

This is the browse list info. Each subnet has a Master Browser, each Master 
Browser sends its list to the Domain Master Browser periodically. The DMB then 
sends its (maybee) complete list to each Master Browser.

MBs are chosen by a process of 'election' and Samba can be configured to win 
those elections if needed.

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>Secondly, does anyone have any information about "dial-on-demand" PPP 
>links?
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http://www.loonie.net/~eschenk/diald.html

Ian Kent