Re: [PLUG] More Samba WINS information...

["Bradley J. Molnar" <brad@student.usyd.edu.au>]

With win98/95 this would be ok, but, if you have any 2K/XP machines, the 
announce version should be set to less than 5.0 (I believe that 4.5 is 
the default for samba 2.2).  If you set it to 5.0 or higher, win2K/XP 
assume that it knows the lanman3 protocal.  Samba does not know it yet 
(and can only use lanman1 and lanman2).  Lanman3 is the whole active 
directory stuff that is such a pain to set up samba with (at least I 
have found it to be).

Long story short, don't use this option with win2k machine, with win 98 
it is fine.

-brad

Kam Salisbury wrote:

> Just in case you did not have enough Samba information, here is some more
> that concerns the Network Neighborhood doesn't work issue.
>
> Though <a href="http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/";>the actual
> documentation</a> is the defacto resource, I found the short answer to what
> I needed to add to Samba'a smb.conf file for WINS support in a small LAN
> environment. These changes effectively fix the Network neighborhood does
> not see the Linux box problem. (Ref: Samba UNIX & NT Internetworking, James
> Deroest, McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-135104-3;
>
> Add the following to your smb.conf, be sure to reference Samba's
> documentation for configuration item specifics. (See BROWSING.txt and
> BROWSING-Config.txt which should be located in .../samba-
> version/docs/textdocs)
>
> wins support = true
> dns proxy = true
> workgroup = YOURGRPNAME
> netbios name = COMPUTERNAME
> announce as = NT
> announce version = 5.2
> domain master = yes
> local master = yes
> preferred master = yes
> os level = 65
>
> *The above entries assume you want the WINS support of Samba to do all it
> can. If you are integrating Samba with NT or 2000 machines, you really need
> to read the documentation to understand what to change for the desired
> effect.
>
> Have a great day,
>
> Kam.
>
>
>
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