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John, You're right! The samba documentation team had made a draft about the subject, with lot of good tips about cross-subnetwork browsing with CIFS, wath can be done and what can't. PS: The broadcast address used for WINS embraces also 255.255.255.255 ... This could be the reason why with bridging one can deploy a Network Neighborhood with success and for others are more difficult to do. John Locke disse: > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:41, vklengh wrote: >> Why a WINS server if I can allow broadcasts even with routing? >> Don't the netbios clients ask for servers with service broadcasts? >> WINS would be only needed if you deny broadcasts to the specific subnet, >> isn't so? >> > Uh, no. At least, not unless you know something about broadcasting > between subnets... or are pulling some good multi-network tricks. > Broadcasts don't go to other subnets. That's what WINS is for--allowing > Windows networking between subnets. > > For example, if you're on a 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, to send a broadcast, > a client sends it to 192.168.0.255. All computers with addresses between > 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.254 get the broadcast. A computer at > 192.168.1.1 doesn't. That's why it doesn't work. I'm not a networking > expert, but as far as I know, you can't route broadcasts of this type. > > Cheers, > -- > John Locke > Open Source solutions for small business problems > http://freelock.com > RSalles -- "A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell." TAO of Programming - Book 4 ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |