WINS TTL

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:42:27PM -0400, Guillermo Gomez wrote:
:
:
> > Result: i can't reach remote
> > Win98 client by name.... i must achieve that in order to make Samba
> > works in our environment if i can't Samba is out :( Help please.
> 
> Take a look at the 'max wins ttl' and 'min wins ttl' parameters in the 
> smb.conf man page.  I still don't think that's the problem, however.  My 
> guess is that the Win98 client isn't trying to re-register.

Of course, if the TTL is set low, then W98 *should* attempt to refresh
more frequently, which might help solve the problem.  Don't set it too
low, though.

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