Broadcast

[Derek Atkins]

Make sure your smb.conf specifies the interface as 10.0.0.0/24.
IIRC, Samba tries to be "smart" about your network interfaces
and tries to choose its own broadcast address.  Unfortunately,
in your case, the default is wrong.

-derek

"Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at coe.neu.edu> writes:

> 
> Hello,
> 	Both my Solaris and Linux machines are set up to broadcast on
> 10.0.0.255.  However with nmblookup only the solaris is actually
> broadcasting on 10.0.0.255. the linux box is broadcasting on
> 10.255.255.255.  How do I make my Linux box bcast on 10.0.0.255?  an
> ifconfig on either system shows their default bcast is 10.0.0.255.  If I
> do an nmblookup -b 10.0.0.255 things work the way I need them to.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
> 
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