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Hi all,

Please give me some help on this Samba question.

I set up a RH 6.1 server running Samba 2.0.5 as a file server in a LAN of 20+
Win98 workstations.   Some of the win98 workstations have a real IP address
while others are assigned the 192.168.1.x private addresses.

None of the workstations with private IP addresses can see the Samba in their
Network Neighborhood.   But after I replaced the private IP with a real one,
the Samba server showed up and all the shared resources were available.

Can Win9x workstations with private IP (192.168.1.x) connect to a Samba server
and use the shared resources?  Is it the problem with Win9x, Linux, or Samba?
Any  docs on how to resolve this  on-line  somewhere?  I checked the FAQ on
samba.org but couldn't find any help there.

Thanks for may info and suggestions.

-stearns

Yes they can - It seems like you have a configuration problem, look art the
samba config file. The last time I had a similar problem I had to add
entries to my PC hosts files.

Quote:> Hi all,

> Please give me some help on this Samba question.

> I set up a RH 6.1 server running Samba 2.0.5 as a file server in a LAN of
20+
> Win98 workstations.   Some of the win98 workstations have a real IP
address
> while others are assigned the 192.168.1.x private addresses.

> None of the workstations with private IP addresses can see the Samba in
their
> Network Neighborhood.   But after I replaced the private IP with a real
one,
> the Samba server showed up and all the shared resources were available.

> Can Win9x workstations with private IP (192.168.1.x) connect to a Samba
server
> and use the shared resources?  Is it the problem with Win9x, Linux, or
Samba?
> Any  docs on how to resolve this  on-line  somewhere?  I checked the FAQ
on
> samba.org but couldn't find any help there.

> Thanks for may info and suggestions.

> -stearns

All your machines are in one physikal network, and have different
subnets? You need a gateway to communicate between those different
subnets! That sounds more like a general network problem than a samba
problem. Can you ping from your private subnet into the public one? What
kind of address has the samba server?

Add the lines
    remote announce = 192.168.1.255/WORKGROUP
to your /etc/smb.conf line and try again...
The Samba box should now show up in the workgroup WORKGROUP

HTH,

JJK

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JJK / Jan Just Keijser
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer

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