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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:

> When two network "segments" are directly connected, your Winblows
> machines on your segment will only see your local computers in
> network neighborhood.
> 
> In order to "see" those on the "other side" a multi-homed machine
> must be set up as a WINS server.

If your WINS servers are NT based, you can set one up on each subnet
and get them talking to each other, and they'll exchange name
information. I don't know if this is possible in nmbd.

<rant>
WINS is the most disgusting self-polluting sack of cr*p I've ever
had the displeasure to deal with.
</rant>

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