Re: samba as wins-server

2005-02-23 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:24:28AM +0100, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm working in an office with several win hosts of all flavours (98,2000,eXPerience). Unfortunatly the resolution of computers takes sometimes up to half an hour (approx.) until they are accessible after booting up. In

samba as wins-server

2005-02-22 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I'm working in an office with several win hosts of all flavours (98,2000,eXPerience). Unfortunatly the resolution of computers takes sometimes up to half an hour (approx.) until they are accessible after booting up. In near future I'll have the chance to switch to FreeBSD with my box (at

Re: samba as wins-server

2005-02-22 Thread David Landgren
Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! I'm working in an office with several win hosts of all flavours (98,2000,eXPerience). Unfortunatly the resolution of computers takes sometimes up to half an hour (approx.) until they are accessible after booting up. In near future I'll have the chance to switch to

Re: samba as wins-server

2005-02-22 Thread Florian Hengstberger
I'm not the admin, I own a normal workstation. I just wanted to know if setting up samba as an wins-server improves the speed of netbios resolution. It seems to me that I'll get in trouble when other XP boxes are around, because I've heard that the first win XP box on the net rules the workgroup

Re: samba as wins-server

2005-02-22 Thread David Landgren
Florian Hengstberger wrote: I'm not the admin, I own a normal workstation. I just wanted to know if setting up samba as an wins-server improves the speed of netbios resolution. It seems to me that I'll get in trouble when other XP boxes are around, because I've heard that the first win XP box