Hi Listies: And to add to this question, can you use SAMBA to access windows on a different partition of the same HD from the drive?
TIA May the Force of the Dragon's Spirit be with you...In Accordance With The Prophecy. Happy Hacking, Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes! -*/ -= )O( Jay )O( =- /*- /*--*/ "No hay mujeres feas, solo que algunas me cuestan mas trabajo desvestirlas mentalmente" "There aren't any ugly women, but some of them are harder for me to mentally undress." - Michael Duran Harris ~-----Original Message----- ~From: Paulo Lopes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:39 AM ~To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org ~Subject: SAMBA resolv configuration ~ ~ ~Hi, ~ ~I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to ~network at ~my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks ~using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way ~to resolv the windows domain names under linux? ~ ~example: ~on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under ~windows i ~can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make ~something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the ~anwser then ~ping <IP>, because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. ~ ~probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to ~linux :-) <SNIP>