Topic: smb over multiple subnets

[Michael Gilpatric]

I am having an unusal problem.  I am trying to set up a server to use in a large switched environment with subnets ranging from 10.248.xxx.xxx to 10.249.xxx.xxx.  I can only seem to map windows drives, (from NT4 and 2000) to this machine from workstations on the same subnet as my server.  Is there something that needs to be configured on my server to allow other subnets to access this server from smb, or is it more likely that the routers are blocking smb trafic?

thanks
Michael

[Grub]

Have you wins enabled on a MS server ???
If so... place this line in smb.conf wins server =XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX  (your wins server) and wins support = no
Don't forget to create custom-templates.

[Boris]

You will also need to add all those subnets to list of local networks and provide correct gateway to "internal" network in case you are using it in server/gateway mode. If you trust to all your internal network you can add 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 as a local network.

[enigma]

.....And just to make matters even more fun, Microsoft recommends a wins server on each subnet and to point these servers at each other as "replication partners"...

So your biggest problem is going to be, how do you convince the clients that you have a wins server on there subnet
Immediate possibilities that come to mind are
1 - Physically creating them
2 - Installing additional NIC cards on the server and attaching to relevant switches,
3 - asigning multiple ip addresses to one or many cards (may have problems of its own)

Keep us informed as to how you do, it will be nice to hear how you overcam it - i ended up with multiple wins servers in my situation......

Enigma

[Boris]

Multiple wins servers not really needed unless you have many thousands clients (even then its questionable). One or two wins servers you can set in your DHCP server config, to be pushed then client obtains its IP.

[Michael Gilpatric]

wow, could I really be that dumb?  Yep, I can.  I am very sorry for this post.  This was a bonehead user move, not usally like me.  I will be more thorough in the future.  Thanks for all your imput.

Michael