[COMP] Re: since the list is quite...could I get some LMhostshelp please?

On Jun 12, John Madden threw electrons at computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

>Uhm, getting to *see* the linux box in the "network neighborhood" may or
>may not ever happen.  That's based heavily on netbeui working, which,
>because it's such an abhorrent protocol, was never (and won't ever be)
>implemented on Linux.

Well, um, I have three computers on my home LAN, a Linux computer (Tux),
a Win95 laptop (Lt) and a 486 running Linux (Lal) all networked together
with Samba, and Lt is perfectly able to see Lal and Tux in the network
neighborhood. It was just a matter of getting smbd and nmbd working with
the right settings...

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