On 1 Jan 00, at 13:13, Stephen Brenner wrote:
> I seem to have some oddities on the NT side. In network setup, it
> won't allow me to specify an IP address (it's grayed out, with the
> DHCP server option selected). That would probably screw up my dialup
>networking function but it seems like it would be essential for the NT
> and Linux systems to talk with each other over the network.
What you want to do is to set up your LAN first, then get your dial-
up to work. You can specify WINS for your NIC, get it working,
and then specify DHCP for your dial-up. This very machine is set
up thusly.
> The same is true for WINS setup, the box for entering the WINS ip
> address is grayed out. I do have WINS Client (TCP/IP) and NETBEUI
> protocol bindings set for the server, the workstation, the netbios,
> and RAS.
Again, unselect the DHCP server option for your NIC. Also, you
don't need NETBEUI if you're using Samba.
> BTW, my netbeui network is working fine for windows 95 and nt systems.
What does your smb.conf file look like? I would double-check to
make sure that the workgroups are the same. Finally, if you're
using NT server on the Network, you're going to have to fiddle with
the NT server and Samba, as the NT server is always going to
assume it's the master browser on the network, which is a very bad
thing if you want the Linux box to act as a WINS server, as it
should be the master browser for the workgroup.
Cheers,
Dennis
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