Re: Who is in, and who is out?

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 02/15/04


Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 10:47:15 -0700

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:35:58 +0100
Paul-Wilhelm Hermsen <pwhermsen@gmx.de> wrote:

> I just want the presently connected computers to be shown in the
> networking environment and not those, which had been connected
> minutes or hours ago.
>

I'm not sure if there is a samba config for that, but I *do* know
this is a big problem on Windows machines. We have one Windows box
still running at work and in Network Neighborhood it *still* shows a
Windows machine that was physically removed from the network four
months ago. Networking is not Windows strong point! :-)

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Kevin Nathan (Montana, USA)
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