From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 14:37:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.jps.net (smtp4.jps.net [209.63.224.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2CB1592D for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulairi@jps.net) Received: from default (208-237-196-52.irv.jps.net [208.237.196.52]) by smtp4.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA24858; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:35:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ulairi" To: "Doug White" Cc: "Questions" Subject: RE: samba/FreeBSD Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:33:29 -0700 Message-ID: <000701be8c3e$98e72a20$34c4edd0@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Without the WinS server, you can use the IP instead of the name and that should work. It should also be able to use DNS to resolve it | NBP was not engineered to run over the wide Internet. Samba supports | NetBIOS over TCP, so it can be done, but: | | 1) The performance will be horrible due to Internet latency. | 2) You must have a WINS server running so the remote system can translate | the NetBIOS name to a IP name. I don't know of any WINS servers for UNIX, | not to say they don't exist. | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message