I think nmblookup uses some entries of smb.conf, like the wins server, charsets, max protocol, domain passwords, and maybe workgroup and masters. I would say that all these methods relies on nmblookup, so it there is a configuration error, none of them should work. But on a very little network it should work without configuration...
2005/5/23, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 23 May 2005 16:12, Emmanuel Durin wrote: > > You can use smb:/// to view all the network on konqueror and > > nautilus. You can also use the nmblookup command, but it usually > > returns IP addresses instead of names. Finally you can use smbtree to > > display recursively workgroups, servers and shares, but it should > > take much time if your network is big. > > For all these methods you must have a working smb.conf for your > > network. > > Are you sure all these methods rely on smb.conf? smb.conf is the > configuration file for the samba server, but as long as you probe lan > neigbourhood it can be ignored. Maybe nmblookup uses it... > > Ciao > Francesco > > -- > Linux Version 2.6.12-rc4, Compiled #1 Sun May 8 14:00:53 CEST 2005 > One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total > macula > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
