On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 21:40 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On 9/5/06, Craig White wrote: > If samba is running on the Linux machine, it will broadcast > it's NETBIOS > name and be found by other systems IF the workgroup is the > same name. By > default, the NETBIOS name of a Linux system running samba will > be it's > host name (not the fqdn) but is configurable in smb.conf > > Perhaps it is a misunderstanding on my part, but I was assuming Samba > was running simply because I am able to use the printers and shared > disk space of the windows machines from ubuntu. ---- that is as a cups client - no registration of a netbios name with a broadcast that I am aware of doing this ---- > If I click on Places/Network Servers in gnome, the resulting window > shows an icon for the Windows Network and within that the workgroup > name the windows machines share and within that the shared resources > by name. But I have no other reason to believe Samba is actually > running. I looked at /etc/samba/smb.conf and did correct the > workgroup name. After rebooting machines (know I should be able to > just restart the service but I do not know how), I see no change to > either the Linux or Windows sides. ---- perhaps it isn't started at all...I believe in ubuntu, something like '/etc/init.d/smb start' should suffice to start samba server - something like '/etc/init.d/smb status' should tell you if it's running or not. ---- > > > when you say editing c:\windows\system32\hosts, I am presuming > that you > are talking about Win95/Win98 since WinNT/Win2K/WinXP/Win2K3 > would use > c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or actually 'lmhosts' > for netbios > resolution. > > Actually in my haste to leave this morning I did leave the \drivers > \etc\ off the path. I do use the hosts file there to successfully > block many ad sites by directing them to localhost. I was blissfully > unaware of lmhosts there however. ---- c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts = tcp host names c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts = netbios names different strokes for different spokes Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss