Re: [LI] WINS for LINUX ???

["Jiju Thomas Mathew" <digitelnet@xxxxxxxx>]

>Hi,
>Is there any protocol or a piece of software that can make my machine
>visible on the network where all the machines are running some version
>of Windows.


samba
man smb, man smb.conf, pico /etc/smb.conf

>
>In detail it is like,
>When we use Win 95, we specify the WINS Server address, and the domain
>name where the IP address of our machine is authenticated with the
>MAC address, and then the name of the machine is made visible to other
>machines on the network.
>


through samba, you can create a wins server or make linux a wins client,
read through the man pages as well as the description given in /etc/smb.conf

or read ORiely's books at
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html
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