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. :) ---- 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
