[Samba] Newbie: samba configuration?

[Radu - Eosif Mihailescu]

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Yes, that is right.

man smb.conf and notice that "wins server" and "wins support" are 
mutually exclusive.

Radu - Eosif Mihailescu

Adrian Petre Mierlutiu wrote:

>i am no guru at all, but if you want to use another wins server, shouldn't 
>you configure
>       wins support = no
>?
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>p.
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>>Dear guru's,
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>>I trying to configure samba(v 3.0.2).
>>server = linux redhat 9.0
>>host = win xp
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>>smb.conf
>>[global]
>>      netbios name = egmond
>>      workgroup = WORKGROUP
>>      security = user
>>      log file = /var/log/samba.log
>>      log level = 1
>>      socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 
>>SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>      smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>>      wins server = 192.168.10.1
>>      wins support = yes
>>      domain logons = yes
>>      logon drive = p:
>>      logon home = \\niftyserver\
>>      os level = 99
>>      preferred master = yes
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>>[pub]
>>      path = /cifs/pub
>>      guest ok = yes
>>      writeable = yes
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>>[netlogon]
>>      path = /cifs/netlogon
>>      read only = yes
>>      guest ok = yes
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>>in /etc/hosts
>>192.168.0.1	niftyserver
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>>I read like: "The IP address of the WINS server should be your Samba server 
>>(where the nmbd daemon is running)"
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>>I could smbclient //localhost/pub...
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>>At my xp pc if I run command
>>C:\>net use p:\\niftyserver\pub
>>System error 67 has occurred.
>>The network name cannot be found.
>>Which mean like there is something wrong in the name. My linux machine runs 
>>NAT and I haven't a DHCP server(yet). Is that a requirement in my situation?
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>>I have WINS on 192.168.0.1(XP PC) and
>>nmblookup -U 192.168.0.1 niftyserver
>>name_query failed to find name niftyserver
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>>so it really comes back to a naming problem...DHCP required?
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>>Thanks in advance for any help,
>>Wim
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