From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 12 21:34:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897E116A420 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:34:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from smtp3.suscom.net (smtp3.suscom.net [64.78.119.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D644243D46 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:34:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3.suscom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FD721018B for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp3.suscom.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp3.suscom.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14251-01-5 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from seibercom.net (ip148.217.susc.suscom.net [216.45.217.148]) by smtp3.suscom.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B7CC210176 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by seibercom.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1CLY7X1004839 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by seibercom.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k1CLY7fm004838 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) From: Gerard Seibert Organization: Seibercom,net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:34:06 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602121559.44033.gerard@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09RnSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602121634.06907.gerard@seibercom.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1284/Sun Feb 12 11:00:59 2006 on seibercom.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at suscom.net Subject: Re: Device Name & Netgear Router X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gerard@seibercom.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:34:17 -0000 --nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I have a Netgear Cable/DSL Router - RP614v3 that connects two WinXP > > machines with two FreeBSD 5.4 machines to each other. The router is > > connected to a Cable Modem, but I do not think that is relevant to > > this question. > > > > On the router's configuration screen, under maintenance is a > > "Attached Devices" menu item. This will list all four machines > > connected to the router with their respective MAC addresses. > > However, only the WinXP machines have their 'Device Name' listed. > > > > I was wondering why this is. I cannot seem to locate any specific > > information on the Netgear site regarding this. Everything works > > fine, so I assume it is not a serious problem. > > Probably just because the router makes a request for the netbios name > of computers. =A0If you don't run samba on your freebsd box, it gets no > answer, so no there is no serious problem about that. I have that latest version of Samba installed on both FreeBSD boxes. The=20 network works fine. Samba seems to be working correctly. It probably=20 has something to do with the way the router quarries for the BIOS name,=20 but that is just a guess. =2D-=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net PGP: http://www.seibercom.net/sig/gerard.asc --nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD76nOchM2dIO+3uMRAqPkAJ4kCgGOjeGxLw0bDV3vBeado/y0QQCfWUc+ vqPIPb73c48EcixgaiBrgkw= =K5eC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7654142.Y1IiSx4Y67--