Mike Blatchley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> O.K., I've now got a RH 5.0 i386 machine answering and connecting incoming
> Windows-95 PPP connections (thanks Eric Smith and Dan Cyr).  The only
> Win-95 service running is TCP/IP (no IPX, no NETBEUI), so users can POP
> their mail, telnet to machines on the LAN, etc. 
> 
> The next hurdle is to allow Network Neighborhood access to other Win-95
> machines on the LAN.  

I'm not an expert on Microsoft networking.  But I'll offer my opinion
anyhow.  :-)

I think the general solution for this requires running a WINS server.  This
is what Windows uses to find other machines on IP networks.  If you don't
already have a Windows NT machine set up as a WINS server, you can have
Samba do it.  See the "BROWSING.txt" file in the Samba docs for the details.
The brief summary is that you need to add a line to your smb.conf in the
[globals] section stating "wins support = yes".

The other approach is that on any given client you can manually add hosts
to the file LMHOSTS in the Windows directory.  The syntax is basically the
same as a /etc/hosts file.  This is especially useful if you need to
remotely access a server on an entirely different network than you usually
use.

Cheers,
Eric


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