Greetings - Samba Help

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 20 Mar 99, "Cityboy" <cityboy at itw.com> had questions about 
Greetings - Samba Help:  

> Sometimes linux appears in the network neighborhood and sometimes it does
> not.
> Info: Slackware 3.6 linux kernel 2.0.36

Most of my experience is with RedHat, but it should be applicable.

> ;   hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.

Uncomment this and put your IP address range in place of the first 
two (and make sure the loopback address in /etc/hosts is named 
"localhost").

> ;  guest account = pcguest

Browsing and printing require a valid guest account (eg, nobody, 
ftp, etc).

> ;  encrypt passwords = yes

Without this, current clients (NT4SP3, win98, win95 with updates) 
will require the EnablePlainTextPassword reg hack.

> ;   os level = 33

Crank this up to 65 if you want samba to be the master browser 
(hint: that's a good thing).

> ;   preferred master = yes

Uncomment this to give samba an edge in winning.

>    wins support = yes

Make sure the clients have WINS enabled, and the IP address points 
to the samba box.

Steve


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