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

[Mike Williams]

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>From: Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com>
>To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>Subject: [KLUG Members] administration of windows from linux (kinda)
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
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>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.....  
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If you' have something (probably your friendly neighborhood Linux 
server) serving DHCP, it's pretty easy.  You just need to have the DHCP 
server pass out a WINS server IP address, and a node-type that uses 
WINS.  The following snippet from dhcpd.conf should do the trick. 

  option netbios-name-servers <WINS server IP>;
  option netbios-node-type 8;

Of course, something on the network needs to be serving WINS, but Samba 
can do that.