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From: Tony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Subject: Re: NT admin needs help: (WINS client)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 06:39:31 -0400
References: <eRit9.7332$46.7151@fe01> <xert9.74$0a3.705@news.uk.colt.net>
Pep wrote:
> Internet User wrote:
>
>
>> Ok some background info:
>>
>> Win2k box setup to accept incoming internet connections (VPN). WINS, and
>> DHCP is running on the 2k box and functioning fine for both the internal
>> Windoze pc's and for the remote windoze VPNnnning. Local users can
>> browse remote users and the other way around with the acception of our
>> Unix box. The remote clients cant accesses it by name and vise versa due
>> to the Unix box not registering with our WINS server.
>>
>> Now I need to know how to get our Unix sco VisionFS 3.0 box to list
>> itself
>> with the WINS server. All other clients get their info (WINS server
>> address) through DHCP. The Unix box has a manual assigned static address
The Visionfs docs (which are easily found on the web in pdf format and
are also on the server itself) more than adequately cover configuring it
to be either a Wins server or a client of another server. You just run
"profedit" logged in as the Administrator on a Windows machine, click
Server Properties, and click the Wins tab, the "Register with these Wins
servers" (or something close to that.
If you don't know who the Visionfs administrator is, login to the Unix
box as root and run "/usr/vision/bin/visionfs status" or, if you need to
change the admin, use "/usr/vision/bin/visionfs setup"
You can map a Windows name to a Unix name if you do change the admin.
Let's say you want to use your Win2000 machine where you login as Fred
with the password "foobar8". You can tell visionfs setup (on Unix now)
that "fred" will be the admin and that the Unix name of fred is root.
You would then need to change root's password IN VISIONFS (you aren't
changing the unix login) by doing
/usr/vision/bin/visionfs password --amend root foobar8
Notice that you use "fred"'s password here.
Then over on Windows, Network Neighborhood, find the Unix box, drill
down to Visiontools, and run "profedit" to set Wins.
Samba is much easier- you can do everything by editing text files on the
Unix side.
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