[Samba] Samba and SSH

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Raymond wrote:

> Utilizing Samba 2.x on Fedora 1.0.
>
> Clients are Win2K and XP utilizing SSH clients.
>
> Successfully implemented Jabber and CUPS within ssh.
>
> Is it possible to implement wins browsing and eliminate lmhosts
> modifications if using port 445. ?

When using port 445 (that means - without NetBIOS) you must have a well
functioning DNS server. Hostnames will be resolved via DNS. WINS is like
DNS for NetBIOS names.

> Console mapping ( net use ) and lmhosts entries are impractical.

Agreed.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org