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Originally Posted by cjcox
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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I've examined the default smb.conf in Ubuntu 9.04. It does not activate either of "wins support" or "wins server" by default. You have to edit the file and make it so for it to happen, either with gksu gedit or with with swat. I also believe their Samba is pure Debian.