samba and win xp in different networks

[Haris Peco]

Mateusz,
  This is great 
  I explore samba documentation, but this is a great short description
for my problem
  Thanks a lot 
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:30 pm, Mateusz Kijowski wrote:
> Dnia niedziela, 22 stycznia 2006 19:25, Haris Peco napisał:
> > Hello,
> >   How i need set samba with Win Xp machine in another network
> > (win and ubuntu are visible in tcp) see my ubuntu
> >
> 
> <cut> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Basic smb name resolution relies on broadcast messages, which will not go from 
> one subnet to another.
> 
> The first and easiest way to solve your problem would be to make one subnet 
> instead of two. This way everything should be ok.
> 
> If that is not an option you might run a WINS server on any of the hosts 
> mentioned, and configure the client machines to use it.
> 
> Enabling WINS server on samba basically means putting a 
> 
> wins support = yes 
> 
> line in your smb.conf file. I have no idea how does one run a WINS server on a 
> Windows box, it is propably only availible in "server" versions of windows 
> anyway. To configure the clients to use the wins server on you might use DHCP 
> or configure it manually. In XP it would be somewhere in "Properties" of a 
> network connection. To configure samba to use a wins server you would have to 
> put 
> 
> wins server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> in your smb.conf file. Note that you can only enable one of above features in 
> samba at one time, that is putting wins support = yes and wins server = 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will *not* work, according to samba docs.
> 
> Another option would be to use the lmhosts or hosts file or use 
> \\[123.123.123.123] instead of \\SERVERNAME, where 123.123.123.123 is the ip 
> address of SERVERNAME, to access shares.
> 
> You might also want to read 
> http://us5.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/NetworkBrowsing.html, 
> or google for "cross subnet browsing"
>