On Wed, 29 May 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: > Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot > to change the 'Reply to' address. > > > Derek, > > I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if > the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: > > What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be > transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. > > Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K box acting as > gateway. I have read that it is notoriously difficult to set up Samba > if NETBUI is installed (which it is on the W98 m/cs), and one should get > rid of it if at all possible. > > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible, as without it the W2K > machines and the W98 machines cannot see each other. > > TCP/IP is on all m/cs, and is properly set up, as the W98 m/cs connect > to the Internet from my W2K m/c over TCP/IP. > > I wonder, too about m/c names. Under the peer-to-peer setup, no name > server is required. I don't see how a hosts list can be set up when two > m/cs have static IP addresses and the other two have dynamic (provided > by my m/c). We haven't used either DNS or WINS. This sets me to > thinking about host names on Mdk - I haven't set this up, I think, and I > guess I need it? How can Samba recognise and authenticate a m/c without > DNS? And how could I set up DNS with m/cs that don't have a static IP > address? > > I have a feeling that there are lots of things like this that I will > have to set up. I forgot that this will not be peer-to-peer, but in > fact I will be using this m/c as a server - and I didn't specify that at > installation. Yet I was offered the ICS option? > > Just thinking aloud, but would welcome your comments. > > Anne > > PS I just got your smb.conf file, and I'll check it out. Again, pinging > is a problem, as I don't have a static address. I think this is > possibly the root of the problem and I don't know what to do about it. Hi Anne,
I've been loosely following this and I'm curious why you haven't tried setting up a Mandrake box to do the gateway/firewall/file serving duties for the other machines on your LAN. That is how many of us here are doing it. I had many of the same questions you're asking when I first started home-networking, and realized quickly that not only did I "not" want a p2p network, but that I couldn't see how windows was going to talk to Mandrake with out something like Samba. thus began the journey. It took about a month to get everything squared away, but once it was all setup and working it was well worth the effort. I should mention that there are many here now that helped me a lot to get things up and working. couldn't have done it without them. At present I've got a Mandrake 8.2 machine takin care of the server duties. (all of them - the poor bugger is working very hard!) in addition I've got a mandrake workstation connecting to this LAN, one XP workstation, and one Win98 workstation. it all works very nicely. O, and this includes printing as well. that was a real PITA, but I was able to get it working. Mark
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