[KLUG Members] Dancing with Samba and Old Gals

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:16 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:
> Ok.  Samba has been running quite well now for a month here at home.
> Alas, I still have not been able to get a Win98 machine to talk to the
> Samba server.  I have the samba server set up as a WINS server and the
> router knows this.  

Is the Samba server the DHCP provider to the Win9x box?  If so are you
providing a netbios-node-type?

> I have the O'Reilly book "Using Samba".  I've tried several of their
> methods but to no avail.  At this point, I don't even know what to tell
> anyone.  
> So, if anyone could walk me though it I would appreciate that.  Just let
> me know what info you need (.conf files, etc).

But you can ping by IP?  Does Windows 9x have the nbtstat command (I
don't remember anymore if that was a new-with-NT thing)?
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