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My LAN has a single linux/samba server as a PDC/file server, and several windows workstations. The workstations get their IP addresses from a Linksys cable router DHCP server. I can't get the linux machine to resolve the NETBios names of the windows machines. >From the Linux machine I can see the Internet through the DSL router, I can ping the windows machines by IP address, but

I've been trying to move a samba PDC (Samba 3.02 on SUSE Linux 10) to a new machine. Since this is a small network (less than 15 workstations and a comparable number of users) I'm using the tdbsam backend, and therefore can't (I believe) set up a self-replicating BDC. So the purpose of this effort is to develop a backup plan that I know will work when the server goes down and I