I've got a simple anonymous read/write samba server with the following configuration:
# Global parameters [global] workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = FILESERVER security = SHARE server string = NAS Server log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 [data] comment = RAID5 Share path = /data force user = nobody force group = nobody read only = No guest ok = Yes On the same network I have a WinXP system (named 'WINXP') and a Win98 system (named 'WIN98') all connected through a Linksys firewall/gateway using DHCP from the Linksys. Everything seems to work fine via windows 'network neighborhood', however I'm having some difficulties understanding what I need for proper name resolution outside of network neighborhood. For example, I wish to be able to drop to a dos box on a windows machine and do a 'telnet fileserver', however 'fileserver' is not resolved. I realize I can edit the hosts file on each windows system but if fileserver has DHCP address this doesn't work. Additionally I wish to be able to 'ping winxp' from the fileserver, but there is no name resolution. Basically, what I do not understand is how to implement netbios to tcp/ip name mapping. Can anyone give me some suggestions or point me to the relevant docs. I've read through a lot of the samba docs, but I do still not understand this aspect. Thanks, Tim -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba