On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 12:45 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > > > >>>---- > > > >>>a wins server and windows machines that find it > > > >>> > > > >>>on fedora system, in smb.conf add > > > >>>wins support = yes > > > >>> > > > >>>on windows systems, add the ip address of the fedora machine to the wins > > > >>>server section in the 'Advanced' tab of the TCP/IP properties of the > > > >>>network adaptors or if you are using dhcp, add this info to the wins > > > >>>section of your dhcp server. Restart samba on the fedora machine > > > >>>'service smb restart' and you should be able to browse Windows > > > >>>Networking in a short amount of time. > > > >>> > > > >>>Craig > > > >>> > > > >>> > > Hey thanks Craig I can connect directly to the share via name as > oppossed to just IP now. > > But what if my wireless router (home network) is set up as the dhcp server? > > I do not see a wins section in my router setup page for this Netgear > WGT264 I have. Is there anyway to add the Linux box to my lmhosts on > the XP box to have this work? ---- absolutely - that is indeed one way of getting NETBIOS names to resolve to a specific ip address without WINS... on my windows xp machine, I would want a file called c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts and an entry like... 192.168.1.1 NETBIOS_NAME see lmhosts.sam of course, lmhosts is not dynamic and any changes will have to be manually recorded to each Windows computer (or samba computers) using this instead of WINS Craig
