Leon McClatchey wrote:
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!
Have you configured Samba to provide WINS service, and set up your win95 clients to reference it as such? I experienced what you described, and WINS curred the problem. You can also list your Linux boxen in the hosts or lmhosts files on the win95 clients, but using WINS cut down on the netbios broadcasting traffic better. Using either method should cause your Linux server to show up in the network neighborhood. Note that windows is broken. It will not parse the lmhosts file if you are using DNS. That is why I said you could list your Linux box in the win95 hosts file. Even though the hosts file is for ip name resolution it will also work for netbios name resolution if you use the lmhosts syntax. Hope this is helpful. -- Ben Messinger Linux user #79,342 (Better late than never!) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>