[GRLUG] Windows network file shares with Ubuntu 12.10

[Alan]

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 12:32 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 11:17 -0500, Ryan Pusztai wrote:
> >  <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > > It is trivially easy to break broadcast, especially with current
> >> firewall defaults.  If you configure WINS then 'exploring the
> >> network' will probably be more reliable.
> 
> > How does one go about configuring this? Is it a routers job? I have
> > some settings in my Netgear router, but it has a version. Which
> > version is the most compatible? Also do I need to setup the clients to
> > use it?
> 
> On the Samba server you set "wins support=yes"
> 
> On the Samba clients you set "wins server=a.b.c.d" where a.b.c.d is the
> IP address of your WINS server.
> 
> In your DHCP configuration add 
> 
>         option netbios-name-servers a.b.c.d;
>         option netbios-node-type 2;
> 
> to your subnet standard.  Then all the Windows clients will start using
> the WINS server and not do broadcast.

This might not apply in this case,
But I've read that WINS causes Firefox to run slowly on the latest
Ubuntu. 
Something about it interfering with host name resolution.
Can't find the link back at the moment.

> 
> Setting it in DHCP might work for LINUX clients too, depending on the
> distro and configuration - some LINUX dhcp client generate a small
> smb.conf file that can be included into your 'real' smb.conf so that it
> can pickup on the DHCP provided configuration.


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