RE: Samba as DC

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

See below.

At 11:18 AM 4/28/2003 -0600, Chris Rose wrote:
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>Sorry about that - i keep forgetting that for this one list i have to 
>reply to all instead of the usual way.
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>Anyway, i am currently trying your suggestion, and it seems to be 
>working.  Not perfectly, but well enough to suit me.  The one single 
>problem with it that i can see is that since the router is no longer 
>handling any of the clients, none of them seem to be able to connect to it 
>in order to administer it - I'm not sure why this would be, but there it 
>is.  Hopefully this won't be critical, but i've run into problems with 
>this router already, where i'll lose the wireless network every couple of 
>days and have to manually change the channel that it uses.  If that 
>happens, there's gonna be problems, but other than that we should be alright.
>
>Thanks, Ray.  This is one of the better kludges i've ever seen :)

Yes, especially because there combo wouter/switch/WAP boxes -- or at least 
some of them -- are going cheap to get them out of the way for new models 
that are not limited to 802.11b. I got my D-Link on closeout locally for $40.

I haven't retried this, as I said, but I *suspect* that the problem 
connecting is that with this setup, your workstations simply have no route 
to the WiFi WAP/router's setup address, and it has no route back to the 
workstations. As an experiment, you might try changing both netmasks to /23 
(that is, 255.255.254.0), which should let the "local" route cover both 
192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.0.0/24. See if that lets you connect. (Remember, 
you have to do this on the WiFi WAP/router as well as the workstations.)

Alternately, you might see if the WiFi WAP/router's network settings can be 
changed and saved. If they can, set the internal network address to 
192.168.1.0/24, and use some out-of-the-way IP address (something outside 
the DHCP range) for the WiFi WAP/router itself.



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