Re: [PLUG] Speaking of Win98 -- Samba question

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

LeRoy Cressy wrote:

>   The WINS configuration shoulfd be the IP address of the Linux box 
> running SAMBA.

That is only necessary if the computers are on different subnets.  
Otherwise, NetBIOS broadcasts are all that is needed.  Plug and play 
peer to peer networking.

Also, if Samba is configured as a WINS server, the client computers will 
fall back to broadcasting anyway.


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