On the other hand, WINS has some advantages over lmhosts: it is dynamic and your dhcp server can instruct the clients to use the wins server instead of sending out broadcasts (add an "option netbios-node-type 2" statement to your dhcpd configuration file; see man dhcp-options). You may find some way to route broadcast traffic, but that way lies madness... -Richard do netbios over tcp/ip peering instead of broadcasts On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:40, Andrew J. Meader wrote: > If you don't want to run wins on your nt2k box then you should work with > the lmhosts file. lmhosts.sam is a good reference for what you are > trying to do. You can use Samba to do some netbios forwarding but for > what you are doing that might be overkill. Read lmhosts.sam (on one of > the windows boxes.) > > Andy > > Y Makki wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I don't really need a wins server on the eth1 segment since there are no > >windows machines here except the file server, the eth2 segment has no > >servers at all. > > > >For testing I have set the FORWARD default policy to ACCEPT, and allow > >all incoming traffic from both eth1 and eth2. > >I also tried earlier to DNAT any 135:139 traffic coming from eth2 to the > >fileserver, which did not help. Ping works from segment to segment. > > > >Maybe there is a client or relay agent of some sort I could install on > >the linux gateway, I don't know. > >
