Simple (not) question.
How can I get linux to do wins address lookups?
I see I can set samba up as a wins client, but this doesn't seem to work.
What I want to be able to do is "ping <machine name>" and receive a
response; the machines names being retrived from a wins server.
So far, the only way I know of doing this is recompiling nsswitch, and end
up with the libnss_wins.so library being available for use. Then all one has
to do is add "wins" to the "hosts: " line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. I'd perfer
not to do this... for various reasons.
Anyone have a nicer way of doing it? All I want really is not to have to
hard code the IP address of the linux machine anywhere on itself. At the
moment I find I have to have an entry for itself in /etc/hosts for samba to
start, otherwise samba reports:
Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host blah.domainname.com
Thanks,
Tim
Tim McAuley
eMuse Technologies
Tel: +353-1-6717317
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