>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> The behaviour of WINS is different between Win95, Win98, Win98SE and
> NT4 (depending on the service pack). Different versions of Samba cope
> variously with the mixtures. MS browsing is a different, but related
> phenomenum. The best overview and troubleshooter is probably
> "BROWSING-Config.txt for Samba release 2.x.x" in the Samba docs.
> This deals with multiple domain and workgroup browsing fairly
> simply.
>
> You do not say which version of Samba you are running or on which OS
> - I assume 2.x on Linux.
We have a few versions of samba from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 which is now the wins
server and all running on either red hat or mandrake 7.
>
> I would guess that your problem is more with the mixed MS environment
> than Samba per se. The rule of thumb is all NT servers(of any
> description) should have the same service pack (5 or 6a for NT4; if
> you have Samba and NT servers with Win98 or NT(3-5) workstations then
> only the NT servers will be browse masters as far as the workstations
> are concerned; preferably declare the NT BDCs as WINS controllers
> (these do the domain authentication - the PDC keeps the master
> domain data); if there are no BDCs then the PDC should be the WINS
> server/browse master. That generally works, other combinations are
> possible, but more tricky. I am still struggling to get NT4, NT5 and
> 'nix/Samba to work together.
>
> > The firewall vpn config has dns/wins configured.
> does this mean that you have both a Samba and another server being
> WINS servers? I do not think that this can work even with Samba-TNG.
No, the firewall vpn config only points to the internal wins/dns servers.
I am not sure how it works, but the vpn virtual adapter picks up the info
on wins etc from the firewall config.
As we have NT, would it be easier to make NT the wins server? Problem
doing this is change of IP addresses. It was easier to swap the ip addresses
of two linux boxes so we could change which samba server wins was running on
rather than change all clients. We do not know much about NT so not sure
how apps such as pgp on the nt server will be effected if we change the IP
address
on the NT box to be the wins server
I guess we just need to systematically go through what we have on the
network
>
> One difference between Win95 and Win98?? is the question of encrypted
> authentication and the guest user account.
>
>
>
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