From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 21:25:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA27503 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27477 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21667; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:25:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:25:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Capriotti cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT - PPP - Samba In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980501171928.00b951c0@pop.mpc.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message