Name resolution with WINS - finally

Heh, I just setup BIND 9.X here on our network at home and used DNS for
name resolution. :)



On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, William Lindley wrote:

> Awhile back I asked the question, How do I set up name resolution so my
> Windows boxen with DHCP-assigned IP's can work from Linux?
>
> Samba 2.2.2 finally has this! From www.mandrakeforum.com:
>
> =====
> nss_wins
>
> nss_wins is another shared library, which allows name resolution via
> netbios names. What does this mean? It means, that finally, you can do:
>

>       # ping windows_machine

>
> where windows_machine is the netbios name (as set under the network
> control panel applet on the identification tab). To enable this, you need
> to add a "wins" entry to /etc/nsswitch.conf. In the samba-2.2.2. RPMs this
> is done for you.
>
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