[KLUG Members] Dancing with Samba and Old Gals

[Mark Jones]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 16:15 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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
> Can you set a netbios-node-type via the DHCP on the router?

No.  I'm currently chatting with Linksys about the problem.  I may not
have a definitive answer from them for days as it needs to be translated
from Hindi.  However, in the process, I have discovered that the box has
the ability to relay DHCP requests.

How difficult is it to set the samba box to be the dhcp server?  Also,
the machine is only a PIII 200 w/128Mb.  Do I have enough horse power to
handle both?  I suspect that I do but just wanted to check.


> > 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.

Is the netbios-node-type the problem in this or is it just a debugging
step?  If it is the problem, then I probably need to switch DHCP over to
the samba box.

Thoughts?
Mark