[wellylug] samba server and dhcp

[Cameron Hart]

> Following Sam's instructions, I was able to get one WIN2K machine to
> readily and willingly find the Linux laptop by hostname and access its
> samba shares. That was way cool to see that happening! The other WIN2K
> machine is configured EXACTLY THE SAME, DAMMIT (sorry), and it can't even
> ping the Linux machine by IP address from it! It can see the other WIN2K
> machine and the Smoothwall machine, etc, etc. There's something wrong
> there, and I don't know what it is. This isn't a W*****s discussion group,
> so I'll leave that one for now.

No it's not a windows discussion group, but we are talking about getting 
windows machines talking to linux servers.

I also guess this is a little nitpicking, but you didn't configure them 
_exactly_ the same did you? They should have different IP's....

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Cameron