[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Samba, WINS support and smbclient not using wins.

[Richard Geoffrion]

Kyle Davenport <Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com> wrote:
> From: "Richard Geoffrion" <ntlug at rain4us.net>
>
>> I can't seem to get smbclient to resolve host names via wins.   I
>> can look them up in nmblookup but smbclient can't resolve via bcast
>> or wins.  OH SURE! smbclient will work with hosts and lmhosts but I
>> don't want to retype the lmhost file every morning. :)
>
> No takers on this one?!
>
> Try adding "wins" to the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
>

Thanks for the stab!  You know I did try that...but it didn't seem to have
any effect.  I'm not even sure that I'm running whatever uses the
nsswitch.conf file.  Do I have to figure out what NIS is and run that?  I'm
so close to total victory on this project.  Fixing these netbios name
resolution issues and figuring out sticky bit/inherited rights....and I'm
home freeeeEEEEEEEEE


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