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[leonmcclatchey@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Leon McClatchey)]

Hello everyone:=)

I finally got most of the network bugs straightened out as far as the
connection goes between my Linux box and my Win95 box:-)  Went thru a
little bit of panic when I got named running on my linux box and
suddenly lost everything on my win95 box (including problems picking up
mail locally on my linux box).  Found the problem there, (Discovered
that 'PTR' doesn't really work to well in my 'SOA' record, 'A' did a
better job, also in yast, I had the wrong address set up for eth0
(misunderstanding there I think)).  BTW, part of the thing also was that
named caused a lot of bounced messages back to me due to undeliverable,
but that doesn't appear to be happening anymore:-)

BTW, as far as named goes, its set up as a caching only (I think, though
win95 appears to send queries on a regular basis even though I have not
configured win95 to access a nameserver).  Did have just a tad of a
problem making my local machines look for a 'local' nameserver, but that
was solved simply by rearranging the search list so that the local
nameserver appeared first.

Now that we have the background in place:-)

My problem now is, yes I can 'find' my linux box via the find command in
win95 and from there I can see what services are available, but whenever
I go to the network neighborhood, it is not listed there.  I can still
map drives and printers and whatever other service that I have
configured as available in samba, but if I don't remember the name, then
I have to use the find option in win95 to find the computer and then go
from there.  I do have Samba set up with the same Workgroup name that my
win95 box looks for and it doesn't appear to do anything at all.

I would appreciate any ideas that can get my 'office' in the
neighborhood watch:-)

Thanx Loads!


--
cya l8r
Leon McClatchey
leonmcclatchey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Linux User 78912 (Win95 Box)

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