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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 96 12:01:55 -0700
From:      Dan Grillo <Dan_Grillo@next.com>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, g_laslett@motherwell.com.au
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netbios (Samba) routing across TCP/IP
Message-ID:  <9610281902.AA29194@femail.next.com>
References:   <199610281030.LAA19082@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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Christoph Kukulies writes:
> > Has any work been done or is anybody currently doing work
> > on software that will let FreeBsd and/or Samba route netbios
> > between LAN's or across the internet.
> 
> There is no extra work required. It works as long as you can make the
> TCP/IP hosts known to the participating machines. Make to host known
> to your DNS server and enter the name in LMHOSTS or HOSTS (?).

In your Windows machine enable "Use DNS for WINS resolution".
It's in the TCP/IP set up dialog box.  This will use DNS to find
netbios IP addresses.   You don't need to run WINS, and you don't need
to put anything in LMHOSTS. 

> You then can connect e.g. to a Win95 share by specifying the \\host\share
> notation. You cannot browse though since this requires UPD broadcasts
> being routed (I'm told).

With NT, if there's a backup domain controller on the distant subnet,
and a backup or primary domain controller for the same domain on your subnet,
you should be able to browse the distant machine.

			--Dan
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  Dan Grillo  dan@next.com  415 780-2963  Blg1 Rm163



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