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