Bubulac Angela Tatiana wrote:
> I am a RH7 linux box into an WnNT WAN.
> My IP address is released by the Winnt dhcp server
> 172.20.64.73.
> DNS server: 172.30.1.3
> WINS server:172.30.1.100
> 172.30.1.101
> My gateway: 172.20.64.71
> Network: 172.20.64.0
> Proxy: 172.30.1.41
> I want to setup samba to view Winnt computer and the
> Winnt be clients to my samba server.
> The big problem is that I don't know how to make that
> the Winnt computers see me by name.
> My linux box has just localhost name.
> I tried to compile samba 2.0.7 with nss_wins
> (u1.samba,org/samba/ftp/contributed/~M=A or
> www.padz.net/~djpadz/nss_wins/ or locate nss_wins with
> www.google.org) but doesn't work (error at
> compilation).
OK: nss_wins is so that the Linux box can refer to Windows boxes by
their NetBIOS ("Network Neighborhood") names.
To allow the Windows boxes to refer to the Linux box by name, you need
to ensure that nmbd is running (or will be run by inetd as required),
and that smb.conf is configured correctly (I'm not going to begin to
discuss what "correctly" means for your particular setup).
It also requires that the hosts are configured to use TCP/IP (i.e.
TCP/IP is bound to the "Client for Microsoft Networks" in the Network
properties). If the hosts only use IPX (or, worse still, NetBEUI),
then (AFAIK) you're stuffed; Samba only talks TCP/IP.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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