Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-03-02 Thread Ronn Pimentel
Wins is: (from the Wins Help file) "A WINS server is a WindowsNT Server computer running Microsoft TCP/IP and the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server software. WINS servers maintain a database that maps computer names to TCP/IP addresses, allowing users to easily communicate with other com

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-03-01 Thread Glynn Clements
Erez Doron wrote: > > First you want to make sure the the WINS server is running. > > [major snip]What is a WINS server ?is it anything to do with samba ? WINS = Windows Internet Name Service Basically it's a NetBIOS name resolution mechanism, i.e. it translates NetBIOS names (the host part o

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-03-01 Thread Erez Doron
Ronn Pimentel wrote: > First you want to make sure the the WINS server is running. [major snip]What is a WINS server ?is it anything to do with samba ? Regards Erez begin: vcard fn: Erez Doron n: Doron;Erez org:Savan Communications Ltd. email;inte

RE: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Thomas Heide Clausen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I would look at SAMBA (http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/). I have set it up succesfully under many UNIX flavours, and it works like a dream (allmost out of the box). Cheers, and good luck. - --thomas ps: What is the WINS you're talking about? Sone NIS derivation?

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Ronn Pimentel
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: > Thanks for the comments. My apologies for not providing enough information. > > I do have everything set properly as mentioned above. The Win95 clients > have the "Log onto Network" option checked and running "winipcfg" on them > reveals that DNS, WIN

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: > Thanks for the comments. My apologies for not providing enough information. > > I do have everything set properly as mentioned above. The Win95 clients > have the "Log onto Network" option checked and running "winipcfg" on them > reveals that DNS, WINS,

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Kevin Traas
>> None of these dialin users (Win95 or WinNT WS) can "browse" the network >> using "Network Neighborhood". They get a "Can't Browse Network" message. >> However, everything else works fine. I've got a WINS server running and the >> Linux is a DNS server, so name resolution isn't a problem. Howe

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: > None of these dialin users (Win95 or WinNT WS) can "browse" the network > using "Network Neighborhood". They get a "Can't Browse Network" message. > However, everything else works fine. I've got a WINS server running and the > Linux is a DNS server, so n

Re: Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-27 Thread Ronn Pimentel
First you want to make sure the the WINS server is running. I've had plenty of experiences where WINS just died for no apparent reason. Next make sure in DUN that they specify the WINS server(s) in the TCP/IP config. Next make sure that they have "Logon to Network" in DUN checked. This way th

Win95 Dialin Client Config

1998-02-26 Thread Kevin Traas
Here at work, I've installed a Linux box with a couple of modems hanging off it for dialin access for remote users. Everyone can dialin and access the network, etc. except that there's one little problem that I haven't been able to find any docs / info about None of these dialin users (Win95