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Hello everyone, I know it is a dumb question but I could not easily find an answer. How does linux broadcast its WINS/Netbios name? My debian box worked great for ...
  1. 02-01-2010 #1
    krfighter
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    Question [SOLVED] WINS/Netbios and linux

    Hello everyone,

    I know it is a dumb question but I could not easily find an answer.

    How does linux broadcast its WINS/Netbios name?

    My debian box worked great for a week and I could access it anywhere from the network with its name but now I cannot for some reason. I was wondering how can I re-broadcast it.

    Thanks in advance.
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    I believe it broadcasts every fifteen minutes or so,
    just like Windows. There are a lot of tricks to the
    configuration though.

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    Thanks for the response. It helped to look into the issue.

    It appears that I somehow removed line with "WINS SERVER ="
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