A. Khattri wrote:
>On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
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>>It just occurred to me that don't really use Gentoo's networking, I have
>>something a bit more custom for mobility reasons. The biggest problem
>>with dhcpcd is that it doesn't do anything with the WINS servers options
>>provided by the dhcp server.
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>WINS maps NetBIOS names to IP addresses - so unless you're running
>NetBeui it doesn't seem useful?
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My understanding is that a typical network windows network runs netbios
on top of TCP/IP, so anytime you are accessing windows/samba file or
printer services, you are 'running' netbios. At least it seems that if
I disable "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" in Windows XP, I can no longer access
network file or print services.
Also, from the smb.conf man page:
You need to set up Samba to point to a WINS server if you
have multiple subnets and wish cross-subnet browsing to work cor-
rectly.
The particular network I had trouble with used multiple subnets, and the
main windows file servers were not listed in DNS, only in WINS.
-Richard
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