On Friday 10 March 2006 20:30, Craig White wrote: > I probably would...it settles the election issues. If there are other > samba servers, you 'might' want to set them to use 'wins server = > ip_addr_of_samba_based_wins_server' > > I should point out though that man smb.conf /wins support > recommends that you not even bother turning it on for a single subnet at > all. Thus, don't go by me...I ALWAYS have it turned on but I ALWAYS use > domain logons, roaming profiles, etc...the things that make a Windows > network more robust and it's easiest for users if they can simply go to > 'My Network Places' and browse the network quickly/smoothly. > > There is another option *if* you have only WinNT, Win2K, WinXP type > Windows systems (i.e. no Win95/Win98/WinME) and that is not to use any > NetBIOS at all...turn off netbios on all the Windows systems and remove > the WINS support entry and then all name resolution should be done > through a local DNS server. WINS and browser elections and the like are > all about NetBIOS and with NetBIOS completely shut off...that ends the > discussion altogether. That would be the quieter/faster method but > probably more work to set up. > There's a lot to think about there, Craig. Tomorrow I'll start with the dual-boot laptop and take a look at these issues. I think there is one Win98 box sporadically used, but I can probably get that out of the picture this weekend. This is a 3-generation family LAN, so necessarily family politics have to be considered. I doubt if you would be happy if your mother-in-law wanted to change something on your box when you feel that you don't have a problem ;-) That being the position, I'm not sure that I will be able to do anything about the W2K box. I'd love to get my hands on it - I'm sure that it is hugely misconfigured, but I have to accept reality. Anne
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