[Samba] WINS on Samba

Brian C. Hill bchill at bch.net
Wed Apr 2 16:48:30 GMT 2003


	Sorry I missed part of this. Is hood your workgoup/domain name
or is hood the name of a host?

Brian
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:47:42PM -0800, Karl Banasky wrote:
> I read that in order to have WINS work correctly, one need to have the "guest account enabled for the SAMBA WINS server. Is this correct?  I currently have WINS enabled and no guest account.  When I go to the "Hood" it shows a blank page.  I have checked, rechecked, checked and rechecked my settings.  Any ideas?
> Thanks.
> KArl
> 
> 
> >>  Am Die, 2003-04-01 um 16.29 schrieb Marco Calabi - T Plan S.r.l.:
>  >>  > Dear Sirs,
>  >>  > i'm trying to set up my samba server as WINS server
> 
>  >>  > in /etc/lmhosts i've defined:
>  >>  Most likely you won't need a lmhosts if you have wins working properly.
> 
>  >>  > In the tcp/ip setting, under wins server, i put the samba server address
>  >>  
>  >>  > 192.168.1.1
>  >>  Configure all servers to use this wins server EXCEPT the wins server
>  >>  itself!
>  >>  This is on 192.168.1.1 you have
>  >>  wins support = yes
>  >>  and no "wins server" entry.
> 
>  >>  On all other machines samba and NT/2k you configure
>  >>  wins server = 192.168.1.1
>  >>  (in smb.conf or the Windows network setup)
> 
>  >>  Regards
>  >>  Uli
> 
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