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Using Samba

by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, Peter Kelly
November 1999
Beginner to intermediate
413 pages
16h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Setting Up Windows NT 4.0 Computers

Configuring Windows NT is a little different than configuring Windows 95/98. In order to use Samba with Windows NT, you will need both the Workstation service and the TCP/IP protocol. Both come standard with NT, but we’ll work through installing and configuring them because they may not be configured correctly.

There are six basic steps:

  1. Assign the machine a name.

  2. Install the Workstation service.

  3. Install the TCP/IP protocol.

  4. Set the machine’s name and IP address.

  5. Configure the DNS and WINS name services.

  6. Bind the protocol and service together.

Basic Configuration

This section presents an outline of the steps to follow for getting Windows NT to cooperate with Samba. If you need more details on Windows NT network administration, refer to Craig Hunt and Robert Bruce Thompsom’s Windows NT TCP/IP Network Administration (O’Reilly), an excellent guide. You should perform these steps as the “Administrator” user.

Name the machine

The first thing you need to do is to give the machine a NetBIOS name. From the Control Panel, double click on the Network icon. This will take you to the Network dialog box for the machine. The first tab in this dialog box should be the Identification tab, as illustrated in Figure 3.16.

Network panel Identification tab

Figure 3-16. Network panel Identification tab

Here, you need to identify your machine with a name (we use the name Artish here) and change the default workgroup ...

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