[TriLUG] SAMBA question

[Roy Vestal]

NIBIOS is turned on and they are the same workgroup name. I'll have to look at lmhosts.sam a little closer.

Thanks Andrew.

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:29:00 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:

> It's been a while, but as I remember with 98 you had to explicitly turn on
> the ability to connect using IP address, since windows networking uses
> NetBIOS Name as its default. You set that mapping using WINS (Samba will
> play nicely as a WINS server if you ask it to) or, alternatively, using
> the lmhosts file. There's a sample lmhosts in (from memory)
> c:/windows/lmhosts.sam but you have to populate it manually and remove the
> .sam extention.
> 
> In terms of browsing the network: is NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled? Is the
> workgroup of the 98 machine the same as that in the samba server?
> 
> Hope these help-
> Andy
> 
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> 
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Roy Vestal wrote:
> 
> > Samba question: I have an RHL 8.0 box running samba. It's sharing one
> > folder. When I try to connect to it via Windows 98 using the ip address
> > (i.e. \\192.168.xxx.xxx), it's not found. Also if I try to browse the
> > network, I'm told my network is not seen. I do not have DNS server, rather I
> > depend on my hosts files. I only have 4 machines on the network and am not
> > planning to put in a DNS server.
> >
> > Any ideas to get this heterogeneous conglomeration to merge and become
> > homogeneous?
> >
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