Re: SOLVED: samba 2.0 troubles (mostly)
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ben Messinger wrote:
> "Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote:
> > I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts
> > suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the
> > bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box
> > at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there
> > should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears
> > to work.
> Enabling WINS in Samba solved my problems as well. Win95 is broken -- It
> will not reference lmhosts if DNS is enabled. Because of this all my
> windoze clients were polling like crazy. Enabling WINS on the Samba
> server eliminated all polling traffic and really sped things up. YMMV.
Thank you very much for this suggestion. Disabling DNS isn't desirable
either, but I tried it and it worked. I will continue to search for a
workaround if such exists and will be sure to post if I come up with a
solution.
Thanks to all for your help.
-Dano
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