We report on the long term monitoring of the GINGA transient source GS 1826-238 performed with the BeppoSAX Wide Field Camera (WFC) instrument, during four different observing campaigns covering October 1996 September 1999. WFC detection of type-I bursting activity from the source ruled out its proposed Black Hole candidacy and clearly suggested the compact object related to GS 1826-238 to be a...