Samba doesn't like dynamic ip addresses.

[Martyn Ranyard]

At 05:00 PM 1/18/02 +0100, you wrote:
>I dont know, but the 2 win boxes and the linuxbox
>obtain diffrent ip addresses from the isp.They are all
>connected to a hub which are connected to the adsl
>modem.

So try my suggestion and add the linux box as the wins server on the 
clients, but make sure wins support = yes in your samba.conf

>--- Martyn Ranyard <ranyardm at lineone.net> skrev: >
>What you have is not a deficiency of samba, more a
> > deficiency of windows
> > and your isp.  Your ISP doesn't know to send your
> > linux box's ip as the
> > wins server, you may be able to enter it manually.
> > Windows will take the
> > idea of it's name server as given (the isp's name
> > server) and therefore
> > will not know "SERVER"'s IP address.
> >
> > At 02:17 PM 1/18/02 +0100, you wrote:
> > >Hi.
> > >I have a linux box connected to the isp through a
> > adsl
> > >modem.I receive an dynamically ip address from the
> > >isp.
> > >I have also 2 win boxes connected to the linux box
> > >which run samba.But no matter what I try I cant see
> > >the linuxbox from the win machines unless I have
> > given
> > >the ip address obtained from the isp in
> > >host,host.allow and lmhosts.So I just wonder if
> > samba
> > >can't deal with dynamic ip addresses at all.
> > >
> >
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