TCP/IP and NFS FAQ

Why can't my other sub-net browse the Visionfs or Samba shares?

Because that's the way Microsoft wants it to work.

First, if all you want to do is ACCESS the shares, you can, even though they don't pop up in Network neighborhood. You'll need a \WINDOWS\LMHOSTS file, and all it needs in it is something like this:

10.1.36.5 mysmbserver #PRE
 

For NT, it's "\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\LMHOSTS" (assuming your system is in \WINNT)

The "#PRE" is not a comment, it needs to be there. With this in place (and you probably need to reboot), you can do Start->Run, type \\mysmbserver and, all other things being equal, it will pop up.

But if you want to browse across sub-nets, you need more. Microsoft wants you to put in an NT server on the subnet's LAN; you can do it with a Unix/Linux machine running Samba and get the same benefit.

See Cross-Subnet Browsing in the Samba HowTo Guide.

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Mon Sep 14 13:34:52 2009: Subject:   MikeHostetler
http://htttp://www.squarepegsystems.com

You still have customer using VisionFS? *shudder* Actually, I didn't know anyone ever used it. Especially after Samba became somewhat stable.





Mon Sep 14 13:40:12 2009: Subject:   TonyLawrence


I have very few SCO customers period. But this isn't really about Visionfs, it's about how Microsoft browsing works.





Tue Sep 15 13:38:10 2009: Subject:   BigDumbDinosaur
http://bcstechnology.net

I switched my last client off VisionFS in 2004. By then Samba could do everything that I needed it to do, was as stable as VisionFS and better supported clients running the NT kernel. Right now I have exactly three SCO boxes under my care and one of them is under my desk. The other two can't switch to Linux due to middleware issues that would involve quite a bit of money to address.

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