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Scott - 31 May 2005 13:31 GMT

I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the right place. Right now in our
office, we have 3 servers, one is Win 2003 Server and Win 2000 server on one
subnet and Linux server on another subnet. We all use Windows XP Pro. Half of
the users use Linux server. Now few users on the 2003 server side want to use
the Linux server for lab research purpose. How can I able to access the Linux
server from a different subnet? Is there a way to have either Win XP or
Windows 2003 server to reconize the Linux domain or server name?? We can ping
each other fine, but when I click browse entire network, we only see two
servers on one subnet... but I don't see Linux server. Can anyone help me how
to get this set up?

Thanks!
RSM

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Ron Lowe - 31 May 2005 15:16 GMT

>I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the right place. Right now in
>our
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> Thanks!
> RSM

Browsing is a NetBIOS function which does not
work across different subnets without a little help.

Do you have 2 actual domains?
That it to say, is the win2003 or 2000 server configured as a domain
controller in subnet 1?
And is the Linux box acting as a samba domain controller in subnet 2?

If so, then all that is required is that all the servers share a WINS
database.
Then, each domain controller ( which is also the Domain Master Browser )
will register it's Domain Master Browser name ( domain-name 1B ) with WINS.
Each domain master browser will then discover other 1B enties in WINS, and
the browser will then show both domains.

So either point all the machines to one WINS server (pick one ), or if there
is to be a WINS server on each subnet, configure them as replication
partners.

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Ron Lowe
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Jetro - 31 May 2005 15:39 GMT

I believe the end-users hardly need to browse the entire network. Connect
additional users to Linux resources using either mapping or Network Places
the same way Linux subnet users are connected.
Technically speaking broadcasts cannot traverse any router. You need WINS
server partnership between the subnets or the lmhosts file. Currently Samba
doesn't support WINS replication. Configure additional DNS zones on every
DNS server.

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Brand - 31 May 2005 15:47 GMT

Did you try telneting to this server ? do you have a login account on this
other server. Is samba running on this other server ?

> I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the right place. Right now in our
> office, we have 3 servers, one is Win 2003 Server and Win 2000 server on one
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> Thanks!
> RSM

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