samba-2.2.6

[Aaron Grewell]

If all your machines are using WINS then the broadcasting should be
greatly reduced, though I doubt it can be completely eliminated without
turning off netbios and using dns names for everything.  Even then, you
would have to have W2K or higher on the workstations and turn off
NetBIOS support.  All the older stuff still broadcasts if it doesn't
immediately find what it wants.  I agree, for PnP networking IPX was the
bomb.  Sadly, it doesn't have the robustness of TCP/IP.  Oh well.

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 20:33, m.w.chang wrote:
> there is only the samba sever when those errors were recorded.
> maybe the nmbd is incorrectly listening to her own broadcast.
> 
> > somehow.  Unless you've turned on WINS NMBD is purely broadcast, so I'd
> > look at what else is on that subnet that would be causing strange
> > responses from the clients.  
> 
> wasn't that functionality replaced by wins? I never needed to understand 
> NETBEUI (M$) and NETBIOS (IBM) stuffs. Was very impressed by Novell IPX,
> 
>  > In case you haven't noticed, NetBIOS
> > Browsing is evil.  Even M$ wants to kill it.
> 
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