From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 11:04:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20884 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:04:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from next.com (next.com [129.18.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20862 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:03:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from day by femail.next.com (NX5.67f1/NeXT0.1-Aleph (CST $Revision: 1.17 $ $State: Exp $ amm)) id AA29194; Mon, 28 Oct 96 12:02:00 -0700 From: Dan Grillo Message-Id: <9610281902.AA29194@femail.next.com> Received: by day.next.com (NX5.67f2/NX3.0X) id AA05399; Mon, 28 Oct 96 12:01:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 96 12:01:55 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Organization: Information Services, NeXT Software, Inc. To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, g_laslett@motherwell.com.au Subject: Re: Netbios (Samba) routing across TCP/IP Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <199610281030.LAA19082@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Versions: dmail 2.1a/makemail 2.8n Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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