Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:18:06 +0200 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: routing problems (experience needed) Message-ID: <200309071518.12477@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20030906111848.N649@pukruppa.net> References: <20030906111848.N649@pukruppa.net>
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--Boundary-02=_UAzW/iRGXhd/ow4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 06 September 2003 12:19, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to substitute our school's old Win NT4 Server by a > SAMBA/FreeBSD. The SAMBA PDC itself works like a charm, but > without the NT machine it can't be located from the different > subnets - and so is quite useless. > > This is our network design: > > > Internet > > ^ > > _______+_____ > > | DSL Router| 172.16.2.254 > > -------+----- > > _______+____ > > | Switch +--+ > > -+-+-+-+-+-- | > _____________ | | | | | +-----------+ > > | PROXY FBSD|--+ | | | | | 172.16.2.1 > > ------------- | | | | ____________ +_________ > 172.16.2.11 | | | +-| SAMBA PDC| | NT4 PDC| > > | | | ----------- -------+-- > | | | 172.16.2.253 | > | | | 172.16.1.1 > > different subnets: | > 172.16.3. | > 172.16.4. | > 172.16.5. 172.16.2. > etc. subnet > (with routers and (with switches) > switches) > > > As I said: connections between the different subnets break as > soon as the NT4 Server is plugged off. > What can be done: > 1) Change all machines to mask 255.255.0.0 > - or would this end up in bad perfomance? > (We have about 35 workstations all over the house and the > number is growing) I'm guessing your sunet currently is /24. Don't consider any perfomance issues unless you have at least 100 workstati= ons > 2) Set up some kind of router (we have got some old P75 left)? Well, if machine FOO=3D172.16.3.x/24 want's to communicate with machine=20 BAR=3D172.16.4.x/24 you WILL need a router in any case. If you just want to have machined FOO and BAR communicate with=20 PDC=3D172.16.2.x/24 you could do some ARP tricks but I guess you have a rou= ter=20 in each subnet. Now your problem is with WIndowsNameService (WINS) You have to setup samba as a WINS server with local master and domain maste= r=20 set. Then your clients need to get the DPC's IP as WINS Server. You can do= =20 that with ISC's DHCP by adding the following option "netbios-name-servers=20 your.pdc-ip.or.name;" Per definition in each subnet had to be another local master but I can=20 remember that if there are enough machines in each subnet, so that there is= =20 alwas a masterbrowser online, it works without. Hope this helps, =2DHarry > 3) Something completely different? > > Thanks for all kinds of ideas and hints. > > Uli. > > > +---------------------------+ > > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | > | > | Wuppertal | > | Germany | > > +---------------------------+ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Boundary-02=_UAzW/iRGXhd/ow4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/WzAUBylq0S4AzzwRAoXwAJ9g7wqmVSPt0jWSCSUgcGW/CgbPSQCfUD5v KX3nPE9o/Qg2zZ+taOFARfs= =hgkz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_UAzW/iRGXhd/ow4--
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