Re: [SLUG] Server project for non for profit organization

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 22:04:11 EDT


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:44:48PM -0400, SOTL wrote:

> This is nice and I appreciate it but I must be lost.
> This is the Samba conf file.
>
> I am not able to see the network in the Win box by use of names.
> How does that interlate with the Samba conf file?
> In short if the Win box does not know where it is how is it going to know how
> to get to the Samba files to find out where it is. This seems to be going in
> a circle to me. Doesn't the Win box find out where the linux box is from the
> win lmhost or host file?
>

Yes, and if you can ping by number and not name, your LMHOSTS file is
messed up (assuming other setups in Windows are pointing to the LMHOSTS
file).

Paul



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