On Friday 10 March 2006 21:18, Craig White wrote: > computers and politics - hmmm...strange bedfellows ;-) > :-) > I find that things are easiest when all 'workstations' use DHCP and I > can make changes to dhcp which are automatically loaded at startup on > the workstation machines (be they windows/macs/linux), then you can > insert things like netbios-server (WINS) into their configuration > without going to each machine and actually manually configuring it. > I've always like static IP myself - of course with just one server, half a dozen workstations, and 4 laptops coming and going, it's a small enough lan to manage that. > It's hard to justify taking the time and energy to remove NetBIOS on all > the various systems and I probably wouldn't bother with it myself, and I > suggested it merely because it is an option. > I'm always interested to hear of other people's ideas and experience. They often lead me on to read things I wouldn't have found otherwise. Anne
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