Re: [fw-wiz] sunscreen vs netbios

From: Mikael Olsson (mikael.olsson@clavister.com)
Date: 10/28/02 

From: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@clavister.com>
To: todd@bsd.uchicago.edu
Date: Mon Oct 28 19:49:56 2002

Todd Anderson wrote:
>
> I am having trouble getting sun to allow certian netbios traffic.
>
> netbios works if I manually map a share
> net use x: \\server\share /USER:domain\me
>
> however, when I try to browse the network or join a domain I never see a
> response comming back to the external interface of the sunscreen. (using
> snoop)

Generally speaking, MS networks can't be browsed through anything with a
routing table without extra work. The reason is their fondness for
broadcast name resolution. Broadcasts never exit the local network.
(What?!? Is there something other than thin ethernet cable? Naaah.)

My guess would be that you need a WINS server on the main network, that
you configure your client to use. Now, instead of only doing broadcast
resolution, your client will ask the WINS server where the domain is,
and what boxes can be reached. I am also told that W2K Dynamic DNS
will do much of the same, but I Don't Do That. :) 

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