Comments on: Access Linux Workstation by Hostname on a Windows Network http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Set up a home linux server for $30 with PogoPlug | Terminally Incoherent http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-167455 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 03:06:48 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-167455

[…] in a Windows centric network, you want to set it up to see, and be seen via NetBIOS. I already blogged about how to do this, but let me repeat it here for the sake of […]

]]> By: Mehdi Karamnejad http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-10506 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:24:41 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-10506

[quote post=”1984″]why would I take that hassle and install samba server just to be visible?[/quote]
when u have a problem like mine! check this out
there are over 100 windows stations on a network ,they are all one subnet and all work with netbios names! there is no dns server and if there is you are not authorised to use dns server,not for performance reasons you decide to migrate one of servers from windows to linux,from now on you have no name in those stupid windows stations! :D here this hint will blast! thanks man

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]]> By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-6423 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:55:15 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-6423

Thanks! I fixed it.

Oh, and if you are working in primarily Windows network having samba around might be a good idea. If I want to I can set up samba shares and make it available. And I think smbfs depends on samba – and that’s what I use to mount windows network shares on my machine.

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]]> By: ths http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-6411 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:02:06 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/03/access-linux-workstation-by-hostname-on-a-windows-network/#comment-6411

a minor typo: dhc_l_ient.conf

why would I take that hassle and install samba server just to be visible? I’d rather add a DNS service and let DHCP/DNS take care of it all. Then WINS will resolve netbios names by querying DNS (assuming that netbios name equals DNS hostname).

Samba will pick up changes to smb.conf after at most 1 minute or you can force a reload of smb.conf with kill -HUP (-1) to the parent smbd process (the one with ppid==1).

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