On Wed, May 07, 1997 at 08:49:14AM -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > IP address) and UDP broadcast packets are *not* routed which > means if 1.1.1.3 is trying to find 1.1.1.2 by name, it won't find > it. The solution to this is to set up a WINS server--sorta like > a DNS server. You can do this in Linux, you just need SAMBA (which > it seems like you already have. The program is nmbd and you need > to create a file which maps host names to IP addresses (and which > looks like an /etc/hosts file) and 'nmbd -H your-lm-hosts-file' > will then run the server. Then on your Win95 client go into TCP/IP > settings and set 1.1.1.1 as a WINS server. If you've got '-proxyarp' > being passed to pppd on your Linux box, you should be there.
Hmmm. Interesting explanation, thanks. Does this explain one odd thing I see? I have a machine at home running Samba, as well as my own workstation (Win95/Linux). I have another machine running Samba, located at my ISP. I can access the machine at the ISP fine from Windows; I never had to set up an LMHOSTS for Win95 or anything. (All machines are in the same domain). But a friend has his own PC (Win95/NT), and wants to talk to this machine at the ISP too, and it doesn't work, even with LMHOSTS it seems. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 42% -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
