nsswitch.conf

[Robert]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:29 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:50, Craig White wrote:
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>>>in samba server (smb.conf) add 1 line
>>>
>>>wins support = true
>>>
>>>restart samba
>>>
>>>chances are, the windows computers will all be happy. If not, add the ip
>>>address of the linux computer to TCP/IP configuration on the windows
>>>computers or better yet, to the dhcp server
>>>
>>>My guess is that SuSE had 'wins support = true' already set. I don't
>>>think that samba.org ships it that way as a default
>>>
>>>Craig
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>>The way I read the original posters question he wanted the Linux system
>>to resolve other windows systems IP addresses.  I believe setting wins
>>support to true makes the linux system run a wins server.  It will not
>>resolve names for IP type operations.  
>>
>>But if that fixes his problem great.  :)
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>You could be right on that. If he wants to browse network with
>linneighborhood or nautilus, it will work and probably with smbclient
>too. I've been wrong before and undoubtedly, I will be wrong again.
>
>I doubt SuSE automatically sets up dhcp/bind in a dynamic dns style.
>
>Craig
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wins support = true does indeed turn my box into a wins server, which 
isn't appropriate on a network with 3 boxes :)  I can browse my windows 
network in KDE because I turned on lisa (daemon wans't started by 
default).  This is all done by ip address though which isn't very 
elegant, although it does work.  I need to get broadcast name resolution 
working, but my guess is that unless nsswitch.conf supports wins on the 
hosts: line this isn't going to happen.  The default Fedora core 3 
install support for users with basic home netbios based networks is 
poor.  At least I've gotten to the point where I can share files and 
print so I'll live with it.