Fedora/Windows network

[Antonio Montagnani]

Craig White ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 20/02/2005 18:54:

>On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 12:45 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
>  
>
>>>>>>>----
>>>>>>>a wins server and windows machines that find it
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>on fedora system, in smb.conf add
>>>>>>>wins support = yes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>on windows systems, add the ip address of the fedora machine to the wins
>>>>>>>server section in the 'Advanced' tab of the TCP/IP properties of the
>>>>>>>network adaptors or if you are using dhcp, add this info to the wins
>>>>>>>section of your dhcp server. Restart samba on the fedora machine
>>>>>>>'service smb restart' and you should be able to browse Windows
>>>>>>>Networking in a short amount of time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Craig
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>Hey thanks Craig I can connect directly to the share via name as
>>oppossed to just IP now.
>>
>>But what if my wireless router (home network) is set up as the dhcp server?  
>>
>>I do not see a wins section in my router setup page for this Netgear
>>WGT264 I have.  Is there anyway to add the Linux box to my lmhosts on
>>the XP box to have this work?
>>    
>>
>----
>absolutely - that is indeed one way of getting NETBIOS names to resolve
>to a specific ip address without WINS...
>
>on my windows xp machine, I would want a file called
>
>c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts
>
>and an entry like...
>
>192.168.1.1      NETBIOS_NAME
>
>see lmhosts.sam
>
>of course, lmhosts is not dynamic and any changes will have to be
>manually recorded to each Windows computer (or samba computers) using
>this instead of WINS
>
>Craig
>
>  
>
Craig,

I made all suggested modification.
I want to report my experience: sometimes I connect to my shared 
folders, sometimes I see the workgroup, the list of computers, the list 
of shared folders, but I can't connect, and even if I close the windows, 
Nautilus has to be killed in system monitor.
After killing, I may connect (not always...).
Another information is that I am running Iptables, but I have no 
restrictions on the internal network, I can connect to my samba shares 
immediately from my Windows machines....
Similar configuration was working fine in FC2
Tnx

-- 

 Antonio M.

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