Re: Windows file sharing over different subnets

["Andrew J. Meader" <ameader@corp.lcom.net>]

Hi,

Netbios is not routable (without help.) Make sure iptables is allowing 
port 139 and make sure both network segments share a common wins server. 
This is painfully obvious, but, can you ping from one segment to the 
other segment?

Have fun.

Andy

Y Makki wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm faced with a problem on my network, I'll start by describing the
>structure. The router is a redhat box, with 3 network cards:
>eth0 goes to the dsl modem, ppp0
>eth1 goes to the 192.168.1.0 network which contains a Windows 2000 file
>server (192.168.1.3)
>eth2 goes to 192.168.2.0 which contains windows clients, mostly Win98
>
>Is it possible to allow clients to see/use the file server? what I have
>done so far is add "option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.3;" to
>dhcpd.conf and issue the following on the gateway:
>
>ip route add 224.0.0.0/4 dev eth1
>route add -net 255.255.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.255 eth1
>
>tcpdump shows some activity when trying to browse network neighborhood
>from the fileserver:
>
>a client (192.168.2.2)
>----------------------
>02:40:58.548757 arp reply 192.168.2.2 is-at 0:40:5:72:f6:6a
>02:40:58.549485 192.168.2.2.microsoft-ds > 192.168.1.3.1214: R [tcp sum
>ok] 0:0(0) ack 673608238 win 0 (ttl 128, id 3584, len 40)
>02:40:58.549552 192.168.2.2.netbios-ssn > 192.168.1.3.1215: S [tcp sum
>ok] 197681:197681(0) ack 673643567 win 8760 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK>
>(DF) (ttl 128, id 3840, len 48)
>
>the fileserver (192.168.1.3)
>----------------------------
>02:41:01.476626 192.168.1.3.1215 > 192.168.2.2.netbios-ssn: S [tcp sum
>ok] 673643566:673643566(0) win 16384 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF) (ttl
>128, id 13498, len 48)
>02:41:01.476736 192.168.1.3.1214 > 192.168.2.2.microsoft-ds: S [tcp sum
>ok] 673608237:673608237(0) win 16384 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> (DF) (ttl
>128, id 13499, len 48)
>02:41:02.242490 192.168.1.3.1220 > 192.168.1.1.domain:  [udp sum ok] 49+
>A? 192.gateway.localdomain. [|domain] (ttl 128, id 13500, len 69)
>02:41:02.243234 192.168.1.3.netbios-ns > 192.168.1.255.netbios-ns:  [udp
>sum ok]
>  
>
>>>>NBT UDP PACKET(137): QUERY; REQUEST; BROADCAST
>>>>        
>>>>
>TrnID=0x823B
>OpCode=0
>NmFlags=0x11
>Rcode=0
>QueryCount=1
>AnswerCount=0
>AuthorityCount=0
>AddressRecCount=0
>QuestionRecords:
>Name=192             NameType=0x20 (Server)
>QuestionType=0x20
>QuestionClass=0x1
>
>This goes on for a while, after which win2k says "192.168.2.2" cannot be
>found. Browsing from the client 192.168.2.2 yields no results.
>
>Any ideas/hints greatly appreciated.
>