[mdlug] Network routing and subnetting?

Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net> rrclark at rrclark.net
Wed Jan 9 20:00:49 EST 2008


On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Mathew Enders wrote:

> I have samba PDC running on the primary network that is inaccessible to
> the machine on the wireless routers.  Machines can not find the domain
> and shares can not be mapped.

And there's the kicker. SMB is not a routable protocol, thus you will not 
see SMB shares on anything but the local network segment that the SMB 
server is attached to. You may want to reconsider your network drive 
sharing protocol to something a bit more friendly to segmented broadcast 
domains.



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