Re: [K12OSN] ping not responding to name

[Burke Almquist <balmquist mindfirestudios com>]

Do you have a master browser setup? Is you SAMBA machine a PDC?
What can you tell us about your setup.

On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Krsnendu Dasa wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a K12LTSP 4.2.1 set up with SMBLDAP authentication.
> When I try to ping a computer in the windows workgroup by name it  
> never responds. It does respond to the ip address however.
> It also takes a long time for all the computers in the workgroup to  
> come up when you click "View workgroup computers" in windows.
> Another thing that seems related it that a short time after  
> installing SMBLDAP and a couple of new windows xp computers my  
> cygwin logons to K12LTSP became really slow. (Like ten minutes.)
>
> Any clues how to fix this?
> Is it to do with Wins, dns etc.?
>
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