Connecting 2 Hoary machines through Samba

[Robbo]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 12:36 +0200, Gábor Iglói wrote:
> Hello Ubuntu Fellows!
> 
> I've just purchased a notebook and of course installed Hoary on it
> (Acer 1362 which is a very good machine for Ubuntu).
> 
> I'd like to use Samba to share a folder on the laptop for easy file
> transfers between my desktop machine (also running Ubuntu).
> 
> I have another machine in my home LAN, a "home server" running another
> distro which act as a NetBIOS name server (well, actually it runs the
> nmbd daemon).
> 
> All of my computers are in the same workgroup.
> 
> My problem is that the Samba network is only functional when the home
> server is running - as I shut down the home server the two Ubuntu
> machines cease to see each other.
> 
> How can I set up my laptop box to provide NetBIOS name resolution (I
> think this causes the problem)?


If your not using any Windows machines, why use Samba?  Use NFS instead,
it's much quicker..  

Howto: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SettingUpNFSHowTo