On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Ben Messinger wrote: > "Daniel J. Brosemer" wrote: > > I gave it one last stab after the small success with your /etc/hosts > > suggestion I figured there were more resolution problems, and so I bit the > > bullet and enabled the builtin WINS server in samba, pointed the win95 box > > at it, and all appears to work. I don't like this because I think there > > should be a better way, but in the meantime, I'll use this as it appears > > to work. > Enabling WINS in Samba solved my problems as well. Win95 is broken -- It > will not reference lmhosts if DNS is enabled. Because of this all my > windoze clients were polling like crazy. Enabling WINS on the Samba > server eliminated all polling traffic and really sped things up. YMMV.
Thank you very much for this suggestion. Disabling DNS isn't desirable either, but I tried it and it worked. I will continue to search for a workaround if such exists and will be sure to post if I come up with a solution. Thanks to all for your help. -Dano
