From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 7:12: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ctech.ac.za (ctech.ac.za [155.238.8.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DD014D96 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evablunted@earthling.net) Received: from INFO.CTECH.AC.ZA (info.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.10]) by ctech.ac.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26862; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:09:24 +0200 (SAT) Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by INFO.CTECH.AC.ZA (Mercury 1.44); 22 Apr 99 16:05:43 CAT-2 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.44); 22 Apr 99 16:05:28 CAT-2 Received: from cyberzone1 (196.25.195.130) by INFO.CTECH.AC.ZA (Mercury 1.44); 22 Apr 99 16:05:19 CAT-2 From: "Langa Kentane" To: "Morten Seeberg" Cc: Subject: RE: samba/FreeBSD Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:08:29 +0200 Message-ID: <000f01be8cc9$99297a20$0a00a8c0@cyberzone1.cyberzone.co.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000701be8c33$1a436e00$16b4010a@msb.int.danadata.dk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Samba can be configured as a wins server! > >NBP was not engineered to run over the wide Internet. Samba supports > >NetBIOS over TCP, so it can be done, but: > > > Basicly it should be possibly just by using Sambas LMHOST file, which is > the same used in the Wonderfull (cough cough) world of Microsoft :) > > I´ve never done this with SAMBA, but I have done it with WinNT. > > The LMHOSTS file is an advanced HOSTS file, which lets you define > on what IP address you Domain server resides > eks from NT (must be the same on Samba): > > 195.xxx.xxx.10 samba #DOM:domain_name > > Be sure to check this with the man pages or help pages for samba. > > >2) You must have a WINS server running so the remote system can > translate > >the NetBIOS name to a IP name. I don't know of any WINS servers > for UNIX, > >not to say they don't exist. > > > The SAMBA suite also contains a WINS server. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message