Hi,
On the recent subject of samba, can I enquire whether there is a WINS
nameserver on the network that hosts are registering with or are they set
to the hybrid node type? This can be altered using options in dhcpd.conf.
Graeme, port 135 is used for the Windows Locator (RPC) service and so is
not purely Windows 9x specific, though the key point some have missed is
that Windows 2000 onwards use port 445 for TCP/IP based direct SMB
(which is much better) rather than NETBIOS (which sucks monkeys nads).
The broadcast address is no longer as important nor as relevent in many
modern Windows based subnetted networks (thankfully - otherwise gigabit
would be more widespread to handle all that extra M$ traffic). I suppose I
won't go in to how a certain University wasn't blocking 445 incoming until
after I moaned about it over the summer, to which I was informed that they
were in the process of doing it...yeah riiiight :-)
With regard to the printer issue, things should be ok provided the win2k
box is properly joined to the domain and can therefore handle auths (you
obviously know about machine accounts already though I would presume).
Ensure you have a recent Samba to overcome the problems with Windows 2000
SP2 onwards and all of Windows eXPensive. Any further problems please drop
me a line, sometimes I am known to be wearing my Samba admin "cap".
Jon.
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