[KLUG Members] administration of windows from linux (kinda)

[Adam Williams]

> Adam, when you did the presentation you said that it is possible to
> set the windows workstations to use the wins server for the listing
> that shows up in "my network places".  How do you do that exactly?? 
> I am working towards nuking my Win2000 Active Directory server and
> going to a Linux Samba server for the main server in my
> classroom.....  

You need to make the NetBIOS client a p-node.  This can be done either
via DHCP (or at least via the ISC DHCPd server included with most every
Linux distribution, I haven't tried with any others) or by hacking in
the clients registry.  I recommend the DHCP method.  The relevant
configuration directives and some explanation is available at -

ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/NetBIOSNameSpace.pdf

The last WINS page is blank, thats OK, there really isn't anything there
yet.  Eventually it will contain information about tweaking the actuall
behaviour of WINS (time outs, fail overs, etc...)