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[Craig Kelley]

> So, let me see if I understand the upshot here: what we're hoping to do on
> campus is (at least for now) not possible: that is, to plop samba servers
> in 'foreign' subnets where we are unable to control the configuration of
> the Win9x machines (except to guarantee that they have NetBIOS and TCP/IP)
> and have users on those machines be able to view our server's shares and
> grab stuff off of them.
> 
> 1.) Am I wrong that this is not possible?

You need to have a central WINS server in order to do this.  Even if you
were not using Samba, but NT Server or whatever, you would still have the
same problem.

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