Re: nsswitch.conf

From: Craig White (craigwhite_at_azapple.com)
Date: 01/08/05

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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:50:59 -0700

    On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:51 -0600, Robert wrote:
    > Scot L. Harris wrote:
    >
    > >On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:02, Robert wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > >>I recently installed Fedora core 3 and I'm having a problem with
    > >>nsswitch.conf, it doesn't support wins on the hosts: line. Is there any
    > >>way to get it?
    > >>
    > >>
    > >
    > >wins is something that is really specific to Microsoft type systems.
    > >For linux or unix type systems you use DNS, host files, NIS+ to do name
    > >to IP address translations.
    > >
    > >While you can configure samba on linux to provide wins support for other
    > >systems as far as I know it will not use wins to resolve gethostbyname
    > >calls.
    > >
    > >What are you trying to accomplish? Maybe there is another solution.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > I want to have my system automatically resolve netbios names without
    > running a wins server. Samba is working fine except for this problem.
    > A couple of solutions are to manually edit the lmhosts file or to hack
    > up a cron script that runs nbtscan and puts the results in lmhosts
    > (yuck). Suse seems to handles windows networking without problems with
    > the default install. Why can't Fedora? 

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in samba server (smb.conf) add 1 line
wins support = true
restart samba
chances are, the windows computers will all be happy. If not, add the ip
address of the linux computer to TCP/IP configuration on the windows
computers or better yet, to the dhcp server
My guess is that SuSE had 'wins support = true' already set. I don't
think that samba.org ships it that way as a default
Craig
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