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[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

I have no problem with having a central WINS server -- it's having to
require arbitrary Win95 machines 'out there' to point to it that I fear is
going to scuttle the project.  

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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
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http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Craig Kelley wrote:

> 
> > 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.
> 
> --
> The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
> Craig Kelley  -- kellcrai at isu.edu
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger ink at inconnu.isu.edu for PGP block
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