From 8f8a9f01909ba29e2b781310baeeaaddc3f15f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gerald W. Carter" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:09:40 -0500 Subject: Moving docs tree to docs-xml to make room for generated docs in the release tarball. (This used to be commit 9f672c26d63955f613088489c6efbdc08b5b2d14) --- docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/remoteannounce.xml | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/remoteannounce.xml (limited to 'docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/remoteannounce.xml') diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/remoteannounce.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/remoteannounce.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f23968b501 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/remoteannounce.xml @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ + + + + This option allows you to setup nmbd + 8to periodically announce itself + to arbitrary IP addresses with an arbitrary workgroup name. + + + + This is useful if you want your Samba server to appear in a remote workgroup for + which the normal browse propagation rules don't work. The remote workgroup can be + anywhere that you can send IP packets to. + + + + For example: + +remote announce = 192.168.2.255/SERVERS 192.168.4.255/STAFF + + the above line would cause nmbd to announce itself + to the two given IP addresses using the given workgroup names. If you leave out the + workgroup name then the one given in the parameter + is used instead. + + + + The IP addresses you choose would normally be the broadcast addresses of the remote + networks, but can also be the IP addresses of known browse masters if your network + config is that stable. + + + + See the chapter on Network Browsing in the Samba-HOWTO book. + + + + + -- cgit