William Murray wrote: > Hi Craig, > I don't know why I didn't think about services. I didn't quite debug > it the way you suggest. I went through system-config-services to see > what was running but is not switched on by default. Turns out that > 'nmb' was off by default, but was now running. I don't really know what > this is, but "Starts and stops the Samba smbd and nmbd daemons used to > provide SMB network services." sounds likely to be relevant. > I'll reboot as soon as I get a quiet moment.. > Thank you, > Bill > Think of nmb as the Windows name server. It translates the Windows name for a machine to the IP address. (Note - the Windows name may not be the same as the hostname.) It should handle discovery of what Windows networking machines are on the network. For a more complete description you can run "man nmbd" or read the nmbd info page. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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