At 4/10/2002 03:04 AM -0400, you wrote: >If you have visiting Windows machines that you plan to have access your >network, then you're probably already running Samba. It's not an additional >service. All you need to do is uncomment the line in smb.conf that turns on >WINS. After that, there aren't any name resolution issues for Winboxes. No >management required.
Oh... didn't know that. Don't know much about Samba yet. Thank you for that note. What does WINS use as its name information source? >But you have to configure networking in every box anyway. All Windows boxen come with DHCP assignment configured by default, and I've found that most people with Ethernet cards that come into my house have the same. For the rest, I just tell 'em "write down your settings, set everything to automatic, then put your stuff back when you leave." -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
