A.P. Lawrence

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TCP/IP and NFS FAQ

Why can't my other sub-net browse the Visionfs or Samba shares?

Because that's the way Microsoft wants it to work.

First, if all you want to do is ACCESS the shares, you can, even though they don't pop up in Network neighborhood. You'll need a \WINDOWS\LMHOSTS file, and all it needs in it is something like this:

10.1.36.5 mysmbserver #PRE

For NT, it's "\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\LMHOSTS" (assuming your system is in \WINNT)

The "#PRE" is not a comment, it needs to be there. With this in place (and you probably need to reboot), you can do Start->Run, type \\mysmbserver and, all other things being equal, it will pop up.

But if you want to browse across sub-nets, you need more. Microsoft wants you to put in an NT server on the subnet's LAN; you can do it with a Unix/Linux machine running Samba and get the same benefit.

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