On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 05:53 AM, Keith wrote:
Are the linux box and the win2k box in the same workgroup? If they
aren't, put them in the same workgroup if you can.
Yes, they are.
If they cannot be
put in the same workgroup then you should set up your samba box
properly
as a WINS server and every SMB box should use it as their WINS server.
(It is advised by the samba people to have only one WINS box.)
I believe we only have one SMB box. However, now that I can map network
drives using the static IP address, can I disable WINS? What are the
pros and cons?
Enabling
WINS support in samba is as simple as putting
wins support = Yes
in the [global] section of your samba server. You may also want to put
name resolve order = wins lmhosts host bcast
Not sure if I set this one. I better check later.
It also *helps* to have DNS set up properly, or at least have
/etc/hosts
(yeah, win32 has an /etc/hosts equivalent too) set up the same on all
machines. Win32, when doing NetBIOS over TCP/IP, will try to resolve
the hostname part of a UNC (universal naming convention) path. For
example, if you type in \\foo\ in your win32 address bar your win32 box
will try to find the IP of foo. It may do this by contacting WINS or
lmhosts. Failing this it will use DNS, and then finally broadcast.
(This is in respect to the name resolve order given above, however
win32
boxes may not necessarily do it in this order.) For sanity sake, it
also makes sense to have your win32 NetBIOS names be identical to their
IP host names.
I have no idea about all of this. Warren helped me with the Samba setup
so he would know better.
# make this number artifically high
os level = 80
preferred master = True
domain master = True
I also tried adding
local master = yes
from Michael's post.
None of it seemed to work.
