You may configure Simba01 as your WINS server. After testing the WINS service, you may mount the network drive.
From the Start menu select Settings and then Control Panel. Select the Network icon and then select protocols. If your machine is in a Campus office or Dorm room with a direct connection to the network, select the TCP/IP protocol. Otherwise if it is at home and you dial-in to the campus modem pool, select the Dialup Adapter. Click Properties, select the WINS tab.
If you see that the WINS service is enabled and the IP address for a Primary WINS Server has been entered, you may configure the secondary WINS Server address instead. If you have two WINS servers already configured, you will need to use an lmhosts file to name the servers for your home directories. The WINS service is used for Domain logon and locating Printers as well as locating files for sharing. So, if you have WINS servers configured already, you almost always do not want to change your configuration. This is especially true if you are using a computer in an existing Workgroup or Domain such as "Nebula".
To configure the WINS server, Click on the box to enable WINS and enter the IP address for Simba01 140.142.12.137 as a WINS server. Then click OK to apply the changes to your system configuration and reboot.
Troubleshooting, if the Secondary WINS server is not specified, and you are having trouble getting your configuration change to stay set, then also specify the above address for the secondary server as well.
Start Windows Explorer, if this is not available as an Icon on the desktop, it may be found under the Start and then Programs menu. In Windows Explorer, open the Tools menu, then Find and then Computer. Enter simba01 in the upper box and press return. Within 30 seconds, the find will complete and if successful an entry for simba01 will appear in the lower box.
You will not need to do this if you have successfuly configured simba01 as your WINS server.
In the WINS configuration screen, there is a button marked "import LMHOSTS" which allows you add WINS names permanently to your computer. To add names, you have to create a text file with the name definitions. Then you can use that button to get the names imported from your file. You have a sample lmhosts import file on your computer named "lmhosts.sam", which you can locate with Windows explorer or "find" in the "start" menu. That sample file details the various ways to define names. Ordinarily you'll place your additional name entries in the file "lmhosts.txt" located in the same directory as you find "lmhosts.sam". The lmhosts entries you'll add consist of an IP address and a name on a single line separated by a space or tab. For example:
140.142.12.137 simba01 # Server for Homer group accounts.
140.142.76.7 noyd-homer # Server for noyd's files on Homer.
You will want to have a name of logon-cluster for each UA account
you have: homer, dante, saul, goodall, mead, aagaard, becker. To determine
the IP address, you can use the command nslookup on your
UA account (at the unix shell prompt). If you have this command on
your workstation and DNS already configured, you can use it there instead.
The name to have nslookup query for is logon-cluster.deskfile.washington.edu.
To find the IP address for the second name in the example above:
homer01> nslookup noyd-homer.deskfile.washington.edu
Server: dns4.cac.washington.edu
Address: 128.95.112.2
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: aesop05.u.washington.edu
Address: 140.142.76.7
Aliases: noyd-homer.deskfile.washington.edu
Because UCS may change the file server for your home directory
without notice, the the IP address for a logon-cluster name you import in this fashion may become incorrect
at some future date. If you have trouble mounting your files, you'll
want to verify that the IP addresses you have imported are still correct
using nslookup.