Guest Dan DeCoursey Posted September 30, 2008 Posted September 30, 2008 Hello We have 2 networks here we use a Cisco L3 switch to route between them but when I browse I olny see devices on "my" network not the other one I can ping all thsoe other servers ijust cant browse when mapping a drive or looking in My Netowork Places--> Entier Network is this just the way it is or should you be able to see any thing you can getto via the router ?
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 Re: Browsing the "entire" network Dan DeCoursey <DanDeCoursey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Hello > We have 2 networks here we use a Cisco L3 switch to route between > them but when I browse I olny see devices on "my" network not the > other one I can ping all thsoe other servers ijust cant browse when > mapping a drive or looking in My Netowork Places--> Entier Network > > is this just the way it is or should you be able to see any thing > you can getto via the router ? Unless you use WINS servers in each location, replicating with each other you can't browse across subnets. NetBIOS traffic isn't routable.
Guest Dan DeCoursey Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 Re: Browsing the "entire" network Hi LW, I have a Desktop and laptop here at my desk....the laptop in on my 30 network and the desktop in on my 50 network..... to my surprise I find the laptop see all devices in the domin and the desktop only see the devices on the 50 network....we dont use WINS I have 2 domain controllers the newer one (just promoted) is running server 2003 and the old legacy one runs Server 2000 the new one has a 50 address and the older one is MULTIHOMED 1 nic = 30 the other = 50 I know I know everyone hates multihoming still really wierd that both my units browse differently "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: > Dan DeCoursey <DanDeCoursey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > Hello > > We have 2 networks here we use a Cisco L3 switch to route between > > them but when I browse I olny see devices on "my" network not the > > other one I can ping all thsoe other servers ijust cant browse when > > mapping a drive or looking in My Netowork Places--> Entier Network > > > > is this just the way it is or should you be able to see any thing > > you can getto via the router ? > > Unless you use WINS servers in each location, replicating with each other > you can't browse across subnets. NetBIOS traffic isn't routable. > > >
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 Re: Browsing the "entire" network Dan DeCoursey <DanDeCoursey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Hi LW, > > I have a Desktop and laptop here at my desk....the laptop in on my 30 > network and the desktop in on my 50 network..... to my surprise I > find the laptop see all devices in the domin and the desktop only see > the devices on the 50 network....we dont use WINS > > I have 2 domain controllers the newer one (just promoted) is running > server 2003 > and the old legacy one runs Server 2000 the new one has a 50 address > and the older one is MULTIHOMED 1 nic = 30 the other = 50 I > know I know everyone hates multihoming Yes, it's a bad practice. > > still really wierd that both my units browse differently Post an unedited ipconfig /all from your laptop & from a desktop. When you say browse, do you mean Network Places? > > "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: > >> Dan DeCoursey <DanDeCoursey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >>> Hello >>> We have 2 networks here we use a Cisco L3 switch to route between >>> them but when I browse I olny see devices on "my" network not the >>> other one I can ping all thsoe other servers ijust cant browse >>> when mapping a drive or looking in My Netowork Places--> Entier >>> Network >>> >>> is this just the way it is or should you be able to see any thing >>> you can getto via the router ? >> >> Unless you use WINS servers in each location, replicating with each >> other you can't browse across subnets. NetBIOS traffic isn't >> routable.
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