Re: [PLUG] samba weirdness

[Jon Galt <jongalt@pinn.net>]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jon Nelson wrote:

> In my experience with samba if you can't see your Linux box in Network
> Neighborhood but you can access it by Start->Run->\\my_linux_box, then it is
> a name resolution problem (ie, WINS).  I use swat to manipulate my smb.conf
> file and the "wins support" setting is at the bottom of the "Globals" tab.  
> Once you enable it restart samba on the "status" tab.  In the future if
> things aren't showing up in Network Neighborhood try restarting nmbd on the
> "status" tab to get it to show up (or you could wait for WINS to refresh).

Jon,
  thanks, but I don't use X on my Linux box.  It's mostly a web server,
and doesn't need gui for that.
  It does sound like WINS is where I should focus my efforts though.  It's
interesting that I have never used WINS before, and now that I want my
Linux box to be a more integraded part of my network, I need to turn on
WINS.

Wayne
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