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? ---- 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
