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Can't browse remote machines in Network

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Name: Reginaldo
Date: April 18, 2002 at 14:08:42 Pacific
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I have three networks at different locations connected by routers, each one with different IP addresses (1.1.1.0 / 2.1.1.0 / 3.1.1.0), being the first location (1.1.1.0) the central, with a Windows 2000 Server, that is the Domain controller and WINS server.
I have a big problem to solve and I need some help.
Let's assume that my central domain is called CENTRAL and all my client machines uses Windows 98 SE

1) I connected all the local machines to a CENTRAL domain controller, but I can't connect the remote machines, for some reason that I don't know why, so all the remote machines are configured as workgroup with the same name of the domain (CENTRAL)
2) I just view the local machines in the network neighborhood, but I can't browse on remote machines, even If I can map or locate remote computers by it's host names.
I want to see all the machines in all network points independent of it's location.

Please, if anybody has a solution, help me! I'm trying to solve this problem for a long time without success. I will be greatly thankful.

PS: Sorry about my poor english, I'm from Brazil :)



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Name: jason
Date: April 18, 2002 at 14:29:44 Pacific
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one way is to set up wins server in each location, make them replicate with the main one in central.

hard way and hard to maintain, make a lmhosts file for the other networks and local network, sounds hard doesn't it?

switch to dns on the w2k server, create the server as also the dhcp server, and use DDNS to create the records for the 98 machines in dns.

i'm not an expert, but always willing to learn and help, and i hope this does. there also may be a problem with the routers passing the information from one segment to the next.

jason


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