Thanx Ray:-) Raymond Doetjes wrote:
In some cases, you have to switch on: LM announcing in your Windows 95 file and printer sharing service. (You've got that running apparently.)
I just checked the Networks icon in Win95 control panel, and the LM Announcing is set to yes, (Which brings up another question, why can't I access the file areas that I have tagged as shared on the win95 box from the linux box. I do have all the shares set up on the win95 at the "user" level).
About dialing the internet, you are right Windows clients and servers rely on NetBios naming, first they try to find the names in - Via an DNS server (Within a Windows NT network when you enabled DNS lookup for WINS). - If fails via an Wins Server - If fails via LMHOSTS records (name and ip address) - then they start a networkbraodcast (this triggers your diald).
Is there any advantage to having DNS lookup activated on the win95 machine?
I addmit that it is strange that even though you have an LMHOSTS with all ip addresses that it still uses networkbraodcasts.
I found that strange too, and am a bit confused along those lines, as from what I've read, Linux and Win95 does not share the same format for the lmhost file?