[swerdna]

Originally Posted by cjcox

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 20:16 +0000, swerdna wrote:
> cjcox;2004598 Wrote:
> > 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!!
> 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.

Regardless, you can't simply "get there from here" so to speak.

Protocols that do not cross subnets, do not cross subnets.. it's just
the way it is. You either use wins or your have to proxy things
across... there really isn't some magic way.

I agree completely. I meant for that to be implicit in what I said.