Re: Samba and NetBIOS
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 13:36 +0000, kvgeorge1 wrote:
> Yup, that was it. What is strange is that I never needed to setup SAMBA
> as a WINS server in UBUNTU - it just worked out-of-the-box.
Actually, that's not possible (don't mean to burst any magic
Ubuntu bubbles). Either Ubuntu defaulted to being WINS (which is BAD,
but typical Ubuntu from my own experience) or somebody had a WINS in
place or somebody was smashing the netbios broadcasts across the
segments network wise.
So... in fact, it shouldn't just "work out-of-the-box", and if it did,
with all other factors being constant, Ubuntu was actually behaving VERY
badly.... but who cares about correctness.. it's Ubuntu!!
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