On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:26 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: > On 1/16/06, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:54 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > In addition, the windows machine also manages to publish its name to > > > the windows dns server while the Linux machine doesn't. > > > > > > Does anyone know what I need to do to get the Linux machine to publish > > > its name to the windows dns? > > > > If it's really just plain old DNS, then you should just need to add a > > line like > > or it could be SMB-based stuff.. let's hope not. :(
Well, for simple workgroup stuff, samba has everything you need to talk WINS. It does AD and the like as well, although I've never been close enough to a real Windows network to find out how it works. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
