No subject

browse list shows all the domains in the State.  From a workstation on
the Samba domain you only see the GRS and CVN workgroups, not the other
domains.

Maybe if we did David's suggestion b) of making the Samba machine a WINS
server it might then display other domains to its members.  I've been
somewhat reluctant to do this in case it trashed the statewide network.
But as it stands now the Samba domain appears to have the status of an
NT domain but does not quite provide all the features.  This is an
adequate tradeoff of course bearing in mind that the Samba domain has un
unblemished service record.

If someone has an experiment they would like to run on this network to
further explore the domain/WINS situation I'd be happy to do it.

K.


> ----------
> From: 	David Campbell[SMTP:campbell at torque.net]
> Reply To: 	plug at linux.org.au
> Sent: 	Friday, 4 September 1998 15:54
> To: 	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: 	[plug] Results from Samba and Masq
> 
> > >I can only see one workgroup on the other sub-network, the same
> workgroup 
> > >as my own.
> > 
> > That's right. Samba (and NT Server) can only be Master Browser for
> the Domain or 
> > Workgroup that they belong to.
> 
> Summary of what I have found:
> 
> Critical stuff
> =======================================================
> a)	Require one Master Brower for each Domain/Workgroup
> 
> b)	Require one WINS server per Domain/Workgroup,
> 	Preferably one WINS server per subnet per Domain/Workgroup
> 
> c)	Providing a SMB compliant machine registers with a WINS server
> for 	
> 	the Domain/Workgroup it belongs to then every WINS server for
> that
> 	Domain/Workgroup will "know" about that machine
> 
> d)	WINS servers will refuse connections from machines outside their
> 	Domain/Workgroup !!!
> 
> Summary: Although sepearate Domains/Workgroups can co-exist on the 
> same wire, they will try to ignore each other (to the best of their
> ability).
> 
> I fell for the trap that a WINS server will collect information from
> all machines 
> that contacts it. This does not happen (see point d)
> 
> Win95 Stuff (through a masq firewall)
> =========================================
> a)	Name => IP num can be resolved from \windows\hosts.
> 
> b)	Providing you can reach a WINS server through the masq
> 	firewall then this can be used to resolve machine names.
> 
> c)	Browsing only shows machines on the local broadcast network.
> 	I had WINS proxy turned on but this did not seem to make much
> 	difference.
> 
> David Campbell
> =======================================================
> campbell at torque.net
> 
> "There is no such thing as a bug in the Linux 2.1.x kernels
> Consider it as a request from the enlightened for you to brush
> up on your C programming and help improve the kernel."
>