On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 19:07 +0100, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Craig White ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 20/02/2005 18:54: > > >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 > > > > > > > Craig, > > I made all suggested modification. > I want to report my experience: sometimes I connect to my shared > folders, sometimes I see the workgroup, the list of computers, the list > of shared folders, but I can't connect, and even if I close the windows, > Nautilus has to be killed in system monitor. > After killing, I may connect (not always...). > Another information is that I am running Iptables, but I have no > restrictions on the internal network, I can connect to my samba shares > immediately from my Windows machines.... > Similar configuration was working fine in FC2 ---- I am not familiar with Nautilus browsing of Windows Networking...I don't use it. >From command line... smbclient -L MACHINE_NAME -U USER_NAME%PASS_WORD will return a list of 'browseable' shares from computer -L using authenticated user -U and password after the percent. likewise... mount -t smbfs //MACHINE_NAME/SHARE /mount/point/for/this/mount -o "username=USER_NAME,password=PASS_WORD" Craig
