Hello! I am trying to connect to Samba at my University. It works fine, but to connect they ask you to set the following: (the IP addresses and suffixes aren’t really this… just to give you an idea) DNS: 111.111.1.111 222.222.2.222 WINS: 111.111.1.111 222.222.2.222 DNS Suffixes: university.com srv.university.com ucs.university.com And then you go to “\\Samba” in Explorer. But this computer is part of another network, and every time a network resource can’t be accessed I don’t want the computer to look to WINS and DNS servers at the University for them. So is there anyway for me to connect without setting the WINS and DNS servers they ask? Is there a way to specify them in the Run command? Is there a script I could use to connect? Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks!

yes, \\samba is a windows client name. \\ipaddress will work just the same. If you don't want to use dns then you don't have to. Just make a hosts file for a single name to ip for your favorite search page. Then go to the search page everytime. The links should direct you without needing dns.

Waterbucket: Are you connecting to the University computers using VPN? If so, VPN connections are independent of your regular TCP/IP properties provided that on the Advanced page of TCP/IP properties for the VPN connection you do not have "Use default gateway on the remote network" checked.

No, they don't use a VPN.