By registering to a WINS server on your network, via samba (possible) broadcasts, your Linux will become "known" to Win machines (NB queries to the broadcast address directed to UDP 137, in the hope of a WINS server existence, would result in the registration of the "broadcaster" - in this case your Linux box - in the WINS database).
Anyhow - you would probably gain a lot more knowledge installing ethereal on the Linux and XP boxes, and capturing the traffic during a simple ping ... or even without one ... you could get the fantastic opportunity to see how the name query works, how broadcast of samba services works, who is answering/responsible for name resolution, and what kind of name resolution you are dealing with (NetBIOS, DNS, you name it). Sometimes a couple of minutes of traces could save you a couple of days of emails on the mandrake lilst ;) Stef On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 12:54:59 -0500, Albert Charron wrote: > >Micro$oft uses NetBios over TCP/IP to resolve names. <snip> > What could Linux possibly be doing to respond to an XP box this way?
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