It is not 100% clear to me how your network is set up but it does seem to me that you have something like this: Firewall Router Internet -------- DMZ ------- Windows nw ----------| |----+-----| |-------+---------- -------- | ------- | | | ----- ------ | | | | ----- ------ Server Client If this is your setup then the problem is Microsoft, as usual! Clients and servers find each other by making broadcasts but broadcasts must not be forwarded by routers, and hence the client and server do not manage to find each other. The solution to the problem is to have a primary windows server in either the DMZ or the windows nw and a secondary windows server in the other. The client then makes a broadcast, finds one of the servers, the server talks to the other server and tells the client about it after which the client and the server in the DMZ will happily communicate. Its all part of the Microshaft policy - You get to pay for two servers instead of one and use lots of extra bandwidth. Hope this helps! Happy hacking, \Gandalf Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
Haven´t anobody tried to set up Linux as a Firewall / Router in a Windows environment?
The problem as described in my mail here, is that the clients on the LAN cannot see the servers in the DMZ as part of the Windows network (in Windows Explorer e.g.).
Do I have to drop Linux and set up another router?
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SuSE as firewall/router for Windows Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:57:02 +0100 From: Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
I need to set up a SuSE Linux 7.0 as a firewall / router in a Windows environment.
I have configured /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config very standard, I think where I have the clients on the local side as 192.168.1.x. In the DMZ I have some servers (with public IP adresses) that I need to see as a Windows client. What do I do to make network browsing and the like work?
I thought that if I pointed to the external WINS server, it would work, but apparantly I need something else.
Can anyone tell me what that is?
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