Re: DHCP, WINS comaptiblity?

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, George Jegadesh wrote:
>I have just installed a RedHat 7.1 linux box in our Windows 2000
>network. Almost everything went well except for Name Service. The
>trouble is, we are using WINS DHCP (Windows Internet Name Service)
>for resolving names in our Windows network.
>
>Since this WINS thing is not a regular DNS, how do I make the linux
>box to work with WINS for name resolution?

I don't think the Linux box will resolve names using WINS.

You can have it advertise itself to the WINS server so that other machine
can find your Linux box. To do this, look for the 'wins server' setting in
smb.conf.

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