Mike Blatchley
1998-May-18 18:32 UTC
Access Win-95 Network Neighborhood via Linux PPP Server
I don't know if this is Samba related, but I figured those monitoring these lists were the experts at Win-95 networking and Linux/UNIX TCP/IP. I have a RedHat 5.0 i386 machine acting as a PPP server for Win-95 dialin users. 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. For now, all these machines are on the same subnet and the remote machine is issued an IP also on that subnet. --------- ------------ -------------- | remote | phone line | Linux | ethernet | Other Win-95 | | Win-95 | -----------| RH 5.0 |----------| peer-to-peer | | machine | | PPP Server | | machines | --------- ------------ -------------->From the "remote Win-95" machine, I can access the Samba share that the"Linux PPP Server" provides. The Linux Server is providing the remote machine with a list of other Win-95 machine names, but I cannot access them. I try, and the remote machine eventually times-out saying the machine is not accessable. Since I'm not running IPX or NetBEUI, I thought all the NetBIOS would be transported via TCP/IP. Is there a possibility that my Linux Server is not broadcasting these packets across the rest of the network? Someone on redhat-list suggested that I use "wins support=yes" in my smb.conf file, but that had no effect. If anyone knows the answer, I'd appreciate the assistance. Thanks, Mike mblatch@orci.com