The hosts things is 'cos there is no DNS setup - or WINS, for that matter. NetBEUI
does not have any name resolution capability - thats what the NT baster browser is
for.
:)
Maybe have a look and see if it has an option to set itself (the Linux box) as the
master browser....
N
On 3/03/2000 17:10:31, "Paul Lowman" blurted out...
>Nic
>
>Thanks for your advice.
>I've got it going now by adding the Linux machine name to my Hosts file.
>Still can't see the machine on the browse list but can find it with
>Find/Computer and successfully map drives to public directories on linux
>machine. Maybe your wrinkle about domain = workgroup will improve matters
>more. Yeah F5 has been getting a beating lately :-)
>
>Paul
>
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