On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > I'm trying to get Fedora to share folders with the Windows machines, as > > well as just interact via hostnames. If I type 'ping windowsbox', it > > cannot find the IP in Fedora, whereas it will find it easily in XP. > > Presumably this is due to some sort of NETBIOS DNS lookup. > > No, 'ping windowsbox' will only work if the Linux PC can resolve the > Windows PC over /etc/hosts or querying a DNS server. Obviously you do > not have either, no DNS server running in local net nor a valid entry > for you local PCs in the /etc/hosts file. You can ping the Windows box > itself as it knows his own name. I think you're wrong here, but I can't test it currently. The Samba-3.0.0 manpage for winbindd suggests this can be done through configuration of your smb.conf and nsswitch.conf, using the winbind options. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
