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?
