Re: [PLUG] samba weirdness

[Jon Nelson <bigfish@enter.net>]

Then the entry " wins support = Yes" should do the trick...I think ;)

On 02/05/02 12:29 -0400, Jon Galt wrote:
> 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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