Samba, Samba, Where for-art though Samba?

[dsavidge]

Until yesterday I could not even spell Linux.

Installed and using redhat 7.3 with KDE. My box picked up an IP and DNS from my WinNT DHCP. But from what I can tell it did not pick up any WINS info. I can ping every PC in the subnet by IP but not by Netbios name. Where do I even put the newbios name of this thing?

I have configured the smb.conf in the etc/samba dir ( I think), but how do I determine if it is running? Where are the executables? Should it be starting up via a script? If so where the heck is that at?

Any help would be most wonderful.

ds

[Gerald Cox]

First off, check out the K-menu. Click the "configuration" selection, then the "other" selection, then the "linuconf".

Once Linuxconf has opened,click the "networking" button. From there click the "Hostname & IP Devices" selection to enter the name for your Linux box & the IP info.

Hope this helps.

Jerry

[cowanrl]

A NetBIOS name is not a part of Linux networking. The only way your machine will even have one is if you run Samba.
By default, Samba will use your machine's hostname as the NetBIOS name. If you want the NetBIOS name to be different than the hostname, use this this line in your smb.conf file:

netbios name = mynetbiosname

Put in whatever NetBIOS name you want.

To use a WINS server, include this line in your smb.conf file:

wins server = ipaddressofwinsserver

and use the IP address of your WINS server.

To start Samba in Red Hat 7.3, just enter this from the command line as root:

service smb start

Depending upon the version of Samba you are using, you will get back some kind of a messages stating that the Samba services started.