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

[Kyle Davenport]

>> 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?

darn.  when it's working, you'll be able to "ping hostname" with a hostname
that's not in DNS but is in WINS.  No I'm not using NIS.  In the
"nsswitch.conf" man page, these are settings for libc functions - in this
case, gethostbyname.  Any processes using it must be restarted if
nsswitch.conf changes.