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Subject:    Multiple workgroups, multiple subnets.
From:       "Theodore J. Soldatos" <theodore () eexi ! gr>
Date:       2001-06-01 12:17:52
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Hi,

Yes, i know that this subject has been around before and i have read all 
postings, plus documents. But i can't come to a conclusion. Here is the 
situation:

We have two domains and many workgroups. We have Win9x and few W2K and 
WinNT clients. We have a Samba 2.2.0 installation running on Linux, 
member of one of the domains, configured as WINS server. All clients are 
configured from DHCP to have the Samba installation as primary WINS. The 
second SAMBA installation is on another site, over a WAN link and acts 
as PDC and WINS for that site. The two Samba installations are 
configured to sync browse lists, and it works fine, clients from the 
remote site can "see" the members of the local *domain* and vice-versa.

The remote site is simple. One subnet, one domain, one PDC, one WINS to 
rule them all. The problem is with the local (central) site, which has 
many VLANs and broadcast isolated subnets. The W2K and NT clients are 
OK, they are members of the domain and can see each other and any Samba 
servers members of the domain. But the Win9x clients are configured in 
many workgroups. They are registering correctly in the Samba WINS, and 
if i smbclient -L the Samba WINS i can see a list of all workgroups. But 
of course in the wins.dat file, the workgroups are registered with IP 
255.255.255.255, #00 and #1e only. So, the workgroups do not appear in 
Network Neighbourhood in Win9x clients at all, they do appear in W2K and 
WinNT clients but they are empty as the client cannot find the DMB. Of 
cource all clients are able to see all workgroups that they have an LMB 
in their subnet (usually, their own workgroup). Of cource, searching 
from Windows for a specific computer name is successfull, as all the 
clients are correctly registering to WINS.

The final question that i need an answer for, is the following: Is it 
possible to rectify this situation (make all workgroups visible in all 
clients in Network Neighboorhood) without enabling broadcasts between 
the VLANs ? And how ?

My understanding so far is that this is not possible without major 
changes in Samba code. Am i right ? The only other answer that i could 
think of is 42.

Thanks in advance,

T.

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