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.) 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). I addmit that it is strange that even though you have an LMHOSTS with all ip addresses that it still uses networkbraodcasts. But you can easiliy solve this problem by letting SaMBa beeing the wins server. (I recall it is wins support = yes) then samba is a Wins name server. All you gotta do is tell windows 95 client were to find a wins server in IP configuration. I have done the same at my work, it works great. My primary Wins server is the NT server (yuk) and the secondary Wins server is the SaMBa Linux server (yeah). Goodluck ----------
Van: Leon McClatchey <leonmcclatchey@homemail.com> Aan: suse-linux-e@suse.com Onderwerp: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Netware Shell Unavailable, Contact Network Administrator Datum: donderdag 13 augustus 1998 4:22
Hello Everyone:-)
I've got one little nuisance problem, that I hope someone can help me with:-) I've got a little network going between my Suse 5.1 Box and my Win95 box. I am using the Samba suite with Linux currently my file server and internet gateway. The problem that I've got is actually two-fold (I think).
1: I cannot see my Linux Box in the network neighborhood, but when I do a search for it, then I can "find" it, and access all the file areas that I have defined. It never does show up in the network neighborhood.
2: Everytime Win95 boots and/or someone logs in on the win95 machine, a prompt comes up saying "Netware Compatible Shell unavailable, Please contact your network administrator". Well, I'm the network administrator, and I am unable to find anything on "creating a netware shell" between Linux and Win95?
There are actually a couple of other minor bugs as well, for one, whenever I activate "dial-on-demand", The win95 causes the linux box to keep dialing out on the internet about every 5 to 15 minutes? From what I've read, that may have something to do with the fact that I don't have a "nameserver" running in my little network? Even though I have all the hosts, lmhosts, and network configuration files on both hosts as identical as the operating systems allow?
Thanx Loads:-)
-- cya l8r Leon McClatchey leonmcclatchey@homemail.com Linux User 78912 (Win95 Box)
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