[Samba] Help

[David Ngu]

jht at samba.org writes:
>Are you using WINS? If your samba server is dependant on broadcast and DNS
>lookups (since DNS lookups are blocking calls!) you will have a problem.
>But with WINS this is avoided. Configure your Samba servers as a WINS
>server: in smb.conf [globals] set "wins support = yes", and set your
>Windows clients tcp/ip config for WINS server to the internal IP address
>of your samba server, and this problem should go away.
>
>
Hi John,

That was it!   I've reconfigured the smb.conf and the Windows 98 machines
as your suggestion and everything work out perfectly without depending on
the DNS.

Once again thank you very much for your help.
>

David N.