MAC SMB browsing across multiple subnets

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mwalk66@hotmail.com - 20 Mar 2007 13:54 GMT

Here's the question for the day for all the MAC guru's, explain the
process for a MAC OSx 10 machine not being able to use smb via dns
name to access machines in other subnets.

an exaple would be a mac with an ip of 10.10.10.1 is able to see and
connect to other machines with ip's of 10.10.10.x but not machines
that are in 10.10.11.x.

This is based on a windows active directory environment with multiple
subnets, windows DNS and active directory in windows 2003 native mode.

any solutions ( short of putting a mac server in or god help us all a
WINS server ) would be most readily appreciated.

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Jim - 20 Mar 2007 19:07 GMT

> Here's the question for the day for all the MAC guru's, explain the
> process for a MAC OSx 10 machine not being able to use smb via dns
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> connect to other machines with ip's of 10.10.10.x but not machines
> that are in 10.10.11.x.

You're using a MASK of 255.255.255.0 and can't see the other C
class subnet? If so, change the third octet to allow addressing
across class C subnets.

> This is based on a windows active directory environment with multiple
> subnets, windows DNS and active directory in windows 2003 native mode.
>
> any solutions ( short of putting a mac server in or god help us all a
> WINS server ) would be most readily appreciated.

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MAC SMB browsing across multiple subnets