[LBo] Samba using DHCP

[Douglas Orchard]

> I'm not setting up a DHCP server.  There is a Wins down the hall where 
> we get our IP addresses on our Windows machines.  I want to know if I 
> can still get my IP addresses from there, but have a working Samba in 
> order to access shares from a Linux box.  And most importantly is that I 
> will be able to access shares on the Linux box from a Windows machine on 
> the network and be able to print to the printer attached to the Linux 
> machine from the Windows machine. 
Samba can use wins. Check in /etc/samba/smb.conf, and look for the wins
settings.
I never use these settings, prefering to use my Linux box as the server,
and the windoze box is just a client.
I also use samba to make my printer available to the windoze box.

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Douglas Orchard

Registered Linux User
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