[KLUG Members] Dancing with Samba and Old Gals

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:26 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 13:45 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Is the Samba server the DHCP provider to the Win9x box?  If so are you
> > providing a netbios-node-type?
> The router is the DHCP server. Would it be better for the samba server
> to do this?  I favor the router because it's a one-stop-shop but if the
> samba server would be a be better place and have more necessary
> features...

Can you set a netbios-node-type via the DHCP on the router?

> Samba know that netbios is running but I don't see anything about
> netbios on the router DHCP.

Not surpising,  such things are usually pretty limited.  You get a lot
more options using the DHCP server provided on your LINUX box.  Or you
can set the netbios node type in the registry of the client.

> > 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)?
> I can ping by IP but not by names.  Nbtstat does exist on Win98.  I can
> do an nbtstat on the win98 box but not on any others. 
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