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

[Richard Geoffrion]

Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
>> Chris Cox writes:

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>> I don't see libnss_wins  Would one of THESE be the correct file?
> 
> Nope.. Without libnss_wins.so, it will not work for you.
> 
> It used to be (apart from SuSE) that you had to compile libnss_wins.so
> from the samba source... it WAS NOT made by default, you had to
> specifically ask for it to be made (involves cd'ing into a directory
> in the source and making a specific target).  I'm pleased that SuSE
> distributes the library... I would have thought that others would have
> followed suit though.

I'll look for and try to 'make' the file.

> 
> I can't remember the thread... what distrib/version of Linux are you
> using?  

Slackware 8.1 with the grsecurity patch (grsecurity.net)

I'll let discuss know how it turns out.

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