From: Brock Nanson (bnanson_at_true.bc.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 01:08:59 CEST
I think if you are running more of a winxx network than an NT network,
you'll need Samba on both ends. Actually, one samba box for every
workgroup. I wound up creating a single workgroup on each end of the
VPN to simplify. They must be set to synchronize.
With WinXX, you will need one of the Samba boxes to be the WINS server.
I haven't found a way to have Samba share this information with other
Samba boxes. I've heard it won't share with NT but have no direct
experience.
The browse list (browse.dat) on the Samba box will show all the machines
on the local subnet and the DMB (and only the DMB) for other Samba boxes
it syncs with. This list does not show clients on other subnets!!! So
essentially it looks like you query your local DMB, get the name of the
remote DMB (the workgroup in network neighborhood), query the WINS
database for an IP, then request the remote browse list from the remote
DMB. At least, it sure seems to work that way. Disabling various parts
causes failures when I first tested this.
I don't need no stinkin' lmhosts file ;-)
It takes quite some time to populate all the lists, have the sync occur
etc, so don't be to hasty to assume your changes have not worked!
I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but once I got it working, I
wasn't looking for more headaches - I don't particularly enjoy fixing
broken M$ networks either ;-)
Brock
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org
> [mailto:users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org] On Behalf Of Simon Matthews
> Sent: August 28, 2002 3:33 PM
> To: Paul Wouters
> Cc: users_at_lists.freeswan.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Network neighborhood
>
>
> Paul,
>
> I already tried that!
>
> Simon
>
> At 12:06 AM 8/29/02 +0200, Paul Wouters wrote:
> >On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Simon Matthews wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to have discovered that there is no way for a
> Win98 client to
> > > connect to a machine that is in a different domain AND is not a
> > PDC/BDC. In
> > > other words, at the office, I have domain "DOM1".
> > >
> > > On my win98 client (behind a freeswan-to-freeswan VPN), I
> have set
> > > the workgroup to "DOM2". The client is configured to use the WINS
> > > server at the office (DOM1's WINS server). The client is
> configured
> > > with an LMHOSTS file ( I have tried various options here, since
> > > there is conflicting information on how a PDC should be
> specified in
> > > the LMHOSTS file).
> > >
> > > The client is unable to browse DOM1. The client can
> connect to the
> > > following machines: PDC, BDC and a SAMBA server.
> >
> >Try this (damn I said I wouldn't give free M$ consultancy :)
> >
> >In the lmhosts file of your win98 machine in DOM2 put:
> >
> >192.168.0.1 Pdcname #PRE #DOM:DOM1
> >192.168.0.1 "DOM1 \0x1b" #PRE
> >
> >Note that '#DOM:' is really that string, and DOM1 is your
> other domain
> >and Pdcname is the netbios name of the PDC in your other domain Be
> >careful with adding this, the text between "quotes" MUST be
> EXACTLY 20
> >characters, and contains spaces and no tabs.
> >
> >Paul
>
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