On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 11:22, Petar Dimitrijevic wrote: > Hi guys, > > One question about Samba. I have a central server set up which serves > three different subnetworks: 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24, > 192.168.2.0/24. The samba server is configured to listen on all 3 > interfaces and there are no problems with it. > > The problem is the following. All computers from the different > subnetworks see each other by name but when you try to access the share > the request times-out. I know that Micro$oft$ protocol is unroutable and > I guess that that is the problem. Does anybody know how this can be > resolved ? Maybe with tunnels between networks ? > > Cheers, > Petar You probably need to read up on wins server options. Netbios is used to broadcast info about shares. This is typically not routed across routers. Wins servers was one solution to resolve this problem. Recommend you pickup the book "The Official Samba-3 How to and Reference Guide". It goes into detail on how to set things up to resolve such issues and provides very clear examples.
