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Date:      Sat, 2 May 1998 21:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NT - PPP - Samba
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502212406.21194Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980501171928.00b951c0@pop.mpc.com.br>

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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Capriotti wrote:

> I found out that PPP -auto -alias is only dialing because of NT, which is
> making some sort of call to the network.

Name lookup! Name lookup!

> But I have this strange feeling that, if I enable WINS at the NT machine,
> making it point to the FBSD box, it won't have to dial.

There are no WINS resovlers for FreeBSD.

Add the common hosts you reference to lmhosts, and/or run named on the ppp
box and point the NT machine at it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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