Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:25:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@e115025.vtacs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: networking w/ms clients help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904271218040.2463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199904270447.AAA18364@e115025.vtacs.com>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, H. Jared Agnew wrote: > 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. Sounds good. > > 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). This is hard since the browse bits are sent via NetBIOS broadcast. Those broadcasts won't propagate beyond the FreeBSD machine, and may not go over the dialup link. My thought on this is to run WINS on either the NT box or the FreeBSD machine, and point the dialup client at it (it doesn't hurt to point everyone at it for orthogonality). Also enable `NetBIOS over TCP' in the TCP/IP Property sheet on the server and client(s) if you haven't already. This way, everyone can resolve against IPs, which the FreeBSD machine can handle, instead of NetBIOS broadcasts. NetNeighborhood will slurp the WINS entries and build a browse list from that (I think). NetBIOS browse lists are usually built by link broadcast packets which don't propagate beyond the local wire. If you have multiple networks and want to use NetBIOS, you have to run WINS. The more NT-savvy among us are welcome to comment. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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