[Lucid] Network Error

Hakan Koseoglu hakan at koseoglu.org
Fri Aug 27 21:25:38 UTC 2010


On 27 August 2010 22:09, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, if I understood correctly, in a home network with a lousy ADSL
> router also serving as a DHCP server (like mine), with Samba default
> no wins support, the choice for static IPs could introduce a problem
> like the above reported?
Not necessarily, eventually the PCs & servers will broadcast who they
are and will be registered but not immediately. Since broadcasts are
UDP, they won't cross networks and using a WINS server makes things
work faster.
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