SAMBA configuration - Machine name

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 19:58 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > I've read all the help available on SAMBA available from GNOME.
> > 
> > I've got an MSDOS (6.0) machine with MSCLIENT over TCP/IP running
> > on it, and a Fedora Core 2 machine, using static IP addresses.
> > Each machine can successfully ping the other. But when I try
> > to establish a share connection from the MSDOS machine to the
> > Linux machine, the MSDOS machine cannot find the Linux machine.
> > 
> > JMCCARTY at AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario\tmp
> > [several second pause]
> > Error 53: The computer name specified in the network path cannot
> > be located.
> 
> Not much of a Samba user, but when I stuggled through getting it working
> I found Swat was helpful.  Some things only worked properly when
> windbindd was running, check
> 
> service winbind status
----
primary usage of winbindd is to obtain users/groups from Windows Domain
Controller as if they were local accounts

secondary usage of winbindd is to support Windows concept of nested
groups.

Neither apply to David's case...move on

Craig