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

[Chris Cox]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> 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

Normally this works. Provided that you have libnss_wins.so on your
machine.  However, I noticed that the Samba version on SuSE 8.0,
libnss_wins, seems broken in this regard... I haven't done enough
trouble shooting on it though to say for sure.  I was going to try
compiliing libnss_wins.so myself and seeing it would fix things
in my little test lab.

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>>
> 
> 
> 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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