Access Win-95 Network Neighborhood via Linux PPP Server
Mike Blatchley
mblatch at rocky.orci.com
Mon May 18 18:32:56 GMT 1998
I don't know if this is Samba related, but I figured those monitoring
these lists were the experts at Win-95 networking and Linux/UNIX TCP/IP.
I have a RedHat 5.0 i386 machine acting as a PPP server for Win-95 dialin
users. The only Win-95 service running is TCP/IP (no IPX, no NETBEUI), so
users can POP their mail, telnet to machines on the LAN, etc.
The next hurdle is to allow Network Neighborhood access to other Win-95
machines on the LAN. For now, all these machines are on the same subnet
and the remote machine is issued an IP also on that subnet.
--------- ------------ --------------
| remote | phone line | Linux | ethernet | Other Win-95 |
| Win-95 | -----------| RH 5.0 |----------| peer-to-peer |
| machine | | PPP Server | | machines |
--------- ------------ --------------
>From the "remote Win-95" machine, I can access the Samba share that the
"Linux PPP Server" provides. The Linux Server is providing the remote
machine with a list of other Win-95 machine names, but I cannot access
them. I try, and the remote machine eventually times-out saying the
machine is not accessable.
Since I'm not running IPX or NetBEUI, I thought all the NetBIOS would be
transported via TCP/IP. Is there a possibility that my Linux Server is
not broadcasting these packets across the rest of the network?
Someone on redhat-list suggested that I use "wins support=yes" in my
smb.conf file, but that had no effect. If anyone knows the answer, I'd
appreciate the assistance.
Thanks,
Mike
mblatch at orci.com
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