Re: [PLUG] Samba/DNS question

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

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Paul wrote:

> Elections depend on broadcasting.  If broadcasting is effective on 
> your network, there is no need for WINS. 

Is it possible that broadcasting is not working on my system?  I had 
followed an earlier thread where the consensus was that WINS was not 
necessary if there was only one subnet.  I made sure I had correctly 
given all computers the same subnet mask, and disabled WINS.

> WINS serves the same purpose for NetBIOS names as DNS servers serve 
> for host names.


> Dynamic DNS wouldn't hurt either.

Is this something I should set up?  I though that static IPs was the way 
to go on a network this small.

> This is making things way more complicated than they need to be.  

And that is what I want to avoid.

> A properly configured Samba server will integrate with Window$ 
> computers by broadcasting alone.  Assuming they are on the same subnet 
> and the broadcasts are not being blocked somehow.  WINS overcomes the 
> limitations and inefficiencies of broadcasting.

Keep in mind that the windows machines are working fine as servers, and 
I can browse and read and write to them from the Linux machine.  It is 
the corollary that is not working.  I cannot access the Linux machine 
from the Windows clients.

My sole problem -- from a symptomatic standpoint, maybe greater from a 
solution standpoint -- is the inability to browse and connect to the 
Linux machine from the Windows machine.

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