Alice Pinard said on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:18:38AM -0700: > Hi, I have a debian firewall set up as a dhcp server, dhcp3. > > Recently I set up a wireless subnet along with my wired subnet. Now > windows machines on the wired subnet can't see the wireless machines for > purposes of file sharing and vice versa. All machines can ping each other. > Sounds like a WINS issue from what I've managed to gather. I've seen hints > that I may be able to do something to the dhcp server on my debian > firewall to handle the WINS stuff between the subnets but I'm a little > lost. I'd appreciate a pointer to a relevant FM to R if anyone is aware of > which FM it might be :)
You can setup samba to act as a WINS server, and then use dhcpd to tell the Windows clients where that WINS server is. The appropriate DHCP server configuration settings (for the ISC dhcpd, anyway), are: # Note: if you only have one WINS server, you should specify it's IP address # twice, otherwise Windows will sometimes fail to use it. option netbios-name-servers 1.2.3.4, 1.2.3.4; # Tells windows to only use WINS for NetBIOS name resolution, instead of # broadcasting packets all over the place. option netbios-node-type 2; The samba setting you want is: wins support = yes However, you should only do this on one samba server on your network. M
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