Re: [Sheflug] Samba WINS client

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

> (telnet, ftp, ping et al). NT does without a problem. This leads me to wonder 
> if 95's networking is borked.

It is.

> 
> A Win9x box is recgonised as what ever you want. It's networking is a crude 
> form of NT's. It can be either IP or NetBIOS based - or both.
> 
> What you really need, when its released, is a Linux box with dhcpd version 3 
> and BIND 8 on it - as dhcpd3 this will support dynamic DNS updates, and bind8 
> will happily receive them. This'll solve the problems :)
> 
> As for the current situation though - I'm not sure. I'm still thinking on 
> this problem for our network at work. Win9x is a git. OK for home (games!) 
> crap for the office (shite networking support). If I think of summat I'll let 
> ye know.
> 

Games. Yes, and, erm. Yup, that's it!

BTW, did you know that the official word from MS (although no-one will
ever hear it again!) is that Windows ME and 2000 (not professional, but
still) is not as stable as Linux, and as far as MS is concerned, as long
as mugs buy it, it never will be!!

so there you go

Craig

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