Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 01:33:09 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@e115025.vtacs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking w/ms clients help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990427013034.2095H-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199904270447.AAA18364@e115025.vtacs.com>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, H. Jared Agnew wrote: > > Situation : > > Small office with less than 20 windows 95 and 98 clients, one windows NT > server, and one FreeBSD box. The FreeBSD box has three network interfaces, > one modem for internet access, one modem for dialin access, and one ethernet > card to the office LAN. The FreeBSD box runs NATD and IPFW to allow all > machines, either dialing in, or on the LAN to access internet. > > First I would like the microsoft client machines on the LAN to be able to > see a microsoft client machine dialed in to the FreeBSD box. By "see" I mean > network neighborhood. Second I would like to run isc's implementation of dhcpd > on the FreeBSD box, for both clients on the LAN and a client dialed in to the > FreeBSD box. > > The problem I am running in to, is that I have no idea where to start getting > clients on the LAN to be able to see a client dialed in to the FreeBSD box > (network neighborhood wise). I have tried to track down with tcpdump, which > ports to "not" to disable with ipfw, but even when I leave the firewall open > between the dialin modem, and ethernet interfaces it doesn't work. Next I > thought that I may not have set the network up correctly, IP and netmask > wise. At this point I have the dialin modem interface set as 192.168.41.1, > and the ethernet interface set as 192.68.40.1, both with the netmasks set at > 255.255.255.0. This is probably where I think my problem lies, but as I have > no experience with this previously I don't really know what local IP's and > netmasks I should choose. I continue to sit in the school book store and > read ORA's TCP/IP book, but I'm a slow learner. What I'm looking for is > someone that would be able to explain to me what I might be doing incorrectly > and point me in the right direction. If I have not given enough information > please let me know. You'll have to install samba and configure it as a Browser master. You'll need to play with 'nmbd'. It's been a long while since i've done this and judging by your experiance and nice setup you won't find this difficult. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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