Matt, In order to be able to “browse” shares without knowing the address of the server, you must both enable WINS (as a server) on the Samba side, and point Windows NT to the WINS server for name resolution. To enable WINS on the server, place the following line somewhere in the global section of your smb.conf file:
wins support = Yes To enable it in Windows, simply place the WINS server’s IP address as a WINS server in the Networking control panel. This varies in different versions of Windows as to exactly where it is located, but it should be relatively easy to find. Hope that helps. -------------------------------------------- Sean P. Elble Independent Systems/Network Engineer Caldera Accredited Partner UNIX/Linux/Windows NT/2000 SES Computer Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Samba stuck! Hi I wonder if you can help me. I'm currently studying Networking as a college course and one of the challenges we have been set is to research, then put into practice the mapping of a linux server onto a Windows NT server. I'll be honest with you, I'm very new to all this so I hope I explain this correctly. I have successfully created my own smb.conf file, usernames, areas and a user group. These all apear from the Windows NT area when I click 'map a network drive' on 'Network Neighborhood' and type the full address. The one challenge we have been given which I am having great problems with is if I open up 'Network Neighborhood' I need my linux server to apear on the Network list. I can access the server if I type the address but I need it to automatically apear on the begining list when 'Network neighborhood'is opened. Do you have any ideas how I can achieve this? Is there something I need to add to the smb file or do I have to configure it from the Windows end?! Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated ! Thanks again Matt Perkins -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba