Configuring NETBIOS/Samba
Tom Taylor
fedora at tomtaylor.co.uk
Tue Jan 27 14:33:46 UTC 2004
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>
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