Configuring NETBIOS/Samba

[Tom Taylor]

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

  > It's a netbios name lookup... instead of using dns , m$ decided that a
> broadcast was better than using dns to resolve local names... If memory 
> serves me well , there's a daemon called Lisa that tries to do the same 
> thing....

I couldn't find any information on this - can you point me in the right 
direction?

> As mentioned by Roger, you can setup your box to run a dhcp server and a 
> dns server... But , as it is a dual boot machine , I dont recommend 
> that, because if you were on windows xp , the other machines wont get a 
> ip and will be unable to resolve names (unless you configure two or 
> three dns servers on /etc/resolv.conf or in windows), unless you 
> configure a dns and dhcp server on windows also...

Yeah, I'm afraid this solution won't really be viable. All I need is a 
simple peer to peer DNS lookup.

Thanks,

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Tom Taylor
<tom at tomtaylor.co.uk>