[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problems with Samba shares and XP clients

[Cristiano Paris]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM, B. Cook <bcook at poughkeepsieschools.org> wrote:
> For what its worth..
>
> 1 B-node: Broadcast - no WINS
> 2 P-node: Peer - WINS only
> 4 M-node: Mixed - broadcast, then WINS
> 8 H-node: Hybrid - WINS, then broadcast

I found them, thank you anyway.

> I believe that to be a correct and complete list for dhcp-option=46 (46
> netbios-nodetype)
>
> I use 2, because I use wins.

Understood.

> You might set your log level up a bit in samba and look in your log.nmbd and
> see if the hosts are actually registering with wins, is your samba server at
> 10.7.0.2?
>
> This is for my samba server @home..
> ...
>
> and some dnsmasq:
>
>...
>
> Again all works great..
>
> (Running FreeBSD 7 on the dnsmasq and samba machines)

Excellent. Curiously I see you use logic names for smb-related dhcp
options... I'll put them in my dnsmasq too. Thanks.

Cristiano