[Samba] Replacing WINs

Ahmad Yahya getlucky at telkom.net
Wed Mar 20 19:55:04 GMT 2002


From: "Jim Lockwood" <JML3310 at ACR2000.COM>

> I'm trying to replace our WINs server with a Samba server, while keeping
my
> NT PDC.  Everything works fine except for Win 95 machines.  I've tried
every
> combination of server = <domain,user,server,share> that I can think of.
>
> The Win95 machines complain about not being able to find a domain
controller
> to authenticate the password.
>
Set win95 to use wins on samba server.
Or edit your hosts file, usually in C:\Windows and add a line like:
----
192.168.1.1    sambaserver
----
If you don't have any hosts file, you can't copy C:\Windows\hosts.sam to be
C:\Windows\hosts

hth
Yaya





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