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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!hookup!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SAMBA Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:25:27 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 44 Message-ID: <320763E7.232C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3205F448.446B9B3D@aristar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Matthew A. Gessner wrote: > > I posted a message here a while back about running SAMBA and I did get > some replies. However, further attempts to contact these folks have > failed, and I' really like to get it up and running. > > I'm looking for general information about setting it up for a specific > case: I have a bunch of Windows 95 machines which are on my network that > use SLIP to dial in to our ISP and I need local access via the Ethernet > to these machines and printers. > > I've had a little success with this: nmbd starts up when machines on the > network go out and try to find names on the network. And so the Windows > 95 explorer does show that the system is out there, but when I try to > connect to it via Explorer it tells me it can't find the machine. > > What I need to know is how do I set up the Windows 95 machines to work > with Samba? What protocols do I need and do I need to enable WINS? > > If needed, I can post or e-mail my configuration files and other info > about my Windows machine(s). > I suspect you'll have better luck running the Microslop network on the Win95 machines, and specifying TCP/IP protocol. That will let you share printers and files as needed on each machine. However, you may not be able to read thde Win95 machines from FreeBSD -- I don't know. The main problem here (IMHO) is that Macrosnot has become utterly intolerant of other operating systems in tandem with their own. To me, this feels very much like IBM's attempt to recapture their monopoly with the PS/2 series. Note that that one landed on its nose. If you use the FreeBSD machine as a server only (mail, http, ftp, whatever), the Win95 machines can access it. But as far as I can tell (from reluctantly having one Win95 machine in my office, which I hate!), NFS won't run between Win95 and FreeBSD. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |