[Tfug] Accessing shared folder

[Ronald Sutherland]

Is it a VPN setup to a larger network?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN

I'll guess its not a VPN, so is there a DSL or Cable modem router, they 
can have a DHCP server but will not have a DNS (name) server. DNS 
servers on Internet (outside of the DSL router) will decode there names 
into addresses, however how is that going to happen for the local 
computers? WINS is one of Microduf's older services, it was on NT3.51, 
NT4.0. I did not use it with Win2k or with Active Directory on my home 
network. At any rate unless you have a windows server on your home 
network then I don't think WINS is decoding names. Samba can do WINS and 
provide most of the Active Directory services, but it has to be 
configured to do so.

A few more steps outside things I actually know is NetBIOS, which is MS 
networking. I remember something about a master browser (per workgroup), 
and wonder if it is decoding names on these small networks that seem to 
just work for no fringing reason I can find?
http://web.mit.edu/rhel-doc/4/RH-DOCS/rhel-rg-en-4/s1-samba-network-browsing.html
I see a note under WINS that says a UDP broadcast is done, so that must 
be how these small local networks are able to resolve names. They 
broadcast and listen, WINS must use that to collect all addresses on a 
subnet and route the information to WINS servers on other subnets... 
:-(. With that I would make sure all PC's have the same workgroup name, 
because I'll bet it will ignore the broadcast otherwise. I'm not sure 
that help's the Linux box see the Win-3 box, but there is hope since 
smb:\ in KDE runs the samba client and may make the UDP broadcast.


Brad Becker wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:04:53 -0700, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Brad Becker wrote:
>>     
>>>>> I'm using Kubuntu and have a home network, 1 linux box, 3 windoze.
>>>>>
>>>>>  From the linux box, in the location bar of Konqueror, when typing:
>>>>>           
>
>   
>> What Ronald Sutherland meant when he said "Are you using M$ domain
>> server and dhcp" was, basically, when the computers boot up and get an
>> IP address automatically via DHCP, are they also registering their
>> hostname with a DNS server with dynamic DNS (basically so when their IP
>> changes in DHCP, DNS is automatically updated too)
>>     
>
> Thanks for the translation :)
>
> All I know is when the computers are turned on they're accessible by name  
> using the previously mentioned smb://<nameofpc>/sharedfolder/ command ...  
> except one.  As to whether they're registering the name with some kind of  
> DNS server I don't know ... don't know the specific command(s) to diagnose  
> ... nor know the route to take based on the diagnosis. I do not have  
> static IP address assignments to any of the boxes, they're all DHCP'd.  I  
> believe another box was swapped out and replaced by the box which is now  
> giving me this issue.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> Subscription Options:
> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
>
>