On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:01:34 GMT, cjcox
<cjcox@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 20:16 +0000, swerdna wrote:
>> cjcox;2004598 Wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 13:36 +0000, kvgeorge1 wrote:
>> > > Yup, that was it. What is strange is that I never needed to setup
>> > SAMBA
>> > > as a WINS server in UBUNTU - it just worked out-of-the-box.
>> >
>> > Actually, that's not possible (don't mean to burst any magic
>> > Ubuntu bubbles). Either Ubuntu defaulted to being WINS (which is BAD,
>> > but typical Ubuntu from my own experience) or somebody had a WINS in
>> > place or somebody was smashing the netbios broadcasts across the
>> > segments network wise.
>> >
>> > So... in fact, it shouldn't just "work out-of-the-box", and if it did,
>> > with all other factors being constant, Ubuntu was actually behaving
>> > VERY
>> > badly.... but who cares about correctness.. it's Ubuntu!!
>> I've examined the default smb.conf in Ubuntu 9.04. It does not activate
>> either of "wins support" or "wins server" by default. You have to edit
>> the file and make it so for it to happen, either with gksu gedit or with
>> with swat. I also believe their Samba is pure Debian.
>
>Regardless, you can't simply "get there from here" so to speak.
>
>Protocols that do not cross subnets, do not cross subnets.. it's just
>the way it is. You either use wins or your have to proxy things
>across... there really isn't some magic way.
>
>
Except the administrators of the equipment determine just what the
subnet is. To the extent that they have the knowledge.