Samba related question.

[Ed Lawson]

On 11 Feb 2004 13:08:26 -0500
"Kenneth E. Lussier" <klussier at sentito.com> wrote:

>
> The Network Neighborhood is using WINS to detect the Linux box. What
> you are describing sounds like the Windows box is not authorized to
> connect to the samba server. This is usually because Windows is using
> encrypted passwords and samba isn't or vice versa. 

The little light starts to glow dim in my head now.
I think this means for purposes of using Samba I could forego the DNS,
enable WINS in SAMBA,  set up authentication properly and the file
sharing under SAMBA would work.
> 

Since he currently has a small office running Windows peer to peer, I
assume there is no WINS server involved.

Thanks.  

Ed Lawson