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Re: [PLUG] More Samba WINS information...
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Yeah, that should work fine, since unless you specifically set it to
something, I believe that samba defaults to announcing itself as WinNT
4.5. I only made that comment based on the line seen below of
announce version = 5.2
But, yes, you are correct, the
wins support = yes
Should work perfectly as long as you are on a home network. For a
corporate network, be careful with this line, especially since many
corporations use an actual WinNT/2K server machine for this job. But,
if you are the admin, go nuts (as long as there is only one machine that
thinks that it is the wins server).
Some other lines that you may need to set are
preferred master = True
domain master = True
that should ensure that samba handles all of the machine browsing for
the domain. Samba may sometimes be slow in updating (I run it on a
P133, so, it might just be my machine) on large networks (>400
machines). On small networks, it will run great.
So, this is a very long winded (as I have a tendency to do) explanation
for Mr Nelson as to why he has no troubles with that one line.
cheers
-brad
Jon Nelson wrote:
hmmm...On my network I have win98, 2k, and ME and I can see them all and they
can see me with just the "wins support = Yes" line.
On 03/05/02 02:18 +1000, Bradley J. Molnar wrote:
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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