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

[Kyle Davenport]

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