Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:29 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:50, Craig White wrote:
in samba server (smb.conf) add 1 line
wins support = true
restart samba
chances are, the windows computers will all be happy. If not, add the ip
address of the linux computer to TCP/IP configuration on the windows
computers or better yet, to the dhcp server
My guess is that SuSE had 'wins support = true' already set. I don't
think that samba.org ships it that way as a default
Craig
The way I read the original posters question he wanted the Linux system
to resolve other windows systems IP addresses. I believe setting wins
support to true makes the linux system run a wins server. It will not
resolve names for IP type operations.
But if that fixes his problem great. :)
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You could be right on that. If he wants to browse network with
linneighborhood or nautilus, it will work and probably with smbclient
too. I've been wrong before and undoubtedly, I will be wrong again.
I doubt SuSE automatically sets up dhcp/bind in a dynamic dns style.
Craig
wins support = true does indeed turn my box into a wins server, which
isn't appropriate on a network with 3 boxes :) I can browse my windows
network in KDE because I turned on lisa (daemon wans't started by
default). This is all done by ip address though which isn't very
elegant, although it does work. I need to get broadcast name resolution
working, but my guess is that unless nsswitch.conf supports wins on the
hosts: line this isn't going to happen. The default Fedora core 3
install support for users with basic home netbios based networks is
poor. At least I've gotten to the point where I can share files and
print so I'll live with it.
