[SLUG] Samba Headaches

[Paul Teasdale]

On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 21:01, Phil Kershaw wrote:

Hi Phil & Rob,

Rob, welcome to Scarborough Linux User Group.

> <SNIP>
>
> If things have been slow when I have been setting servers up on our
> network it has usually been a dns issue. Is samba trying to resolve
> netbios names using dns? Although why this should be different for XP
> clients I don't know.
>

This is a really good tip Phil and fits in with my experience also. I do 
have another suggestion also. 

I may be totally wrong but I think Windows 2000/XP resolve netbios names 
primarily using DNS but Windows 95/98/ME resolve netbios names 
primarily using WINS. My suggestion therefore would be to make sure 
that Samba knows where your WINS server is located (if you have one) 
using:

wins server = ?

in your smb.conf file.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Paul

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