[Samba] recognizing netbios name

2009-07-25 Thread Robert T McQuaid
July 25, 2009 samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] recognizing netbios name The problem of getting samba to allow a windows network to recognize a Fedora system was solved using the following steps: 1. yum install samba This seems to be necessary

[Samba] recognizing netbios name

2009-07-10 Thread Robert T McQuaid
July 10, 2009 François Legal de...@thom.fr.eu.org samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] recognizing netbios name You responded: I think samba can't really work without smb.conf Most parameters have default values, but things like workgroup don't. Do you

Re: [Samba] recognizing netbios name

2009-07-10 Thread Miguel Medalha
Conclusion: There is no way for an individual user, even one with decades of computer experience, to set up a Linux LAN. I cannot in any way, shape or for, agree with that. My first Linux domain controller was working on production after a couple of weeks of study, starting

Re: [Samba] recognizing netbios name

2009-07-10 Thread Dale Schroeder
Robert, I agree with Miguel, as basic networking is fairly straightforward. Are your workstations using DHCP with the router acting as the DHCP server? If so, does the router have an option for declaring a WINS server, and have you done so? If the router doesn't have that option, have you

[Samba] recognizing netbios name

2009-07-08 Thread Robert T McQuaid
July 8, 2009 Nick Pappin npap...@latahfcu.org François Legal de...@thom.fr.eu.org samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] recognizing netbios name F Legal suggested: If there is a router between your samba machine and your windows machines (which all 3

[Samba] recognizing netbios name

2009-07-06 Thread Robert T McQuaid
July 6, 2009 Samba samba@lists.samba.org Subject: recognizing netbios name I have a Fedora 10 Linux system connected through a router to three windows computers (XP+XP+Vista). The Linux computer seems unable to present a netbios name to the rest of the