RE: [Sheflug] Samba WINS client

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

are the win95 boxes running just tcp/ip or have they got netbios (netbeui) running ? AFAIK netbeui provides the browsing capability.

On Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:15 PM, Craig Andrews [SMTP:craig [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk] wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am currently messing around with Samba on a medium sized network, and
> have this problem:
>  
> Most of the other machines are Win9x, and a few are WinNT. Only 2 are
> Linux based.
>  
> I can see the WinNT and Linux boxes OK, as they are all on the same
> domain. However, if I try to ping a Win9x box, all I ever get is Host
> Not Found.
>  
> I have set up Samba to use the correct WINS server, to no avail.
>  
> Summary then: On a network with a single domain. I can see NT and Linux
> boxes (boxen?) OK, but not Win9X boxes. I can, however, mount the shares
> on these by the usual methods.
>  
> Cheers then,
>  
> Craig
>  << File: ATT00004.htm >> 

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