-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jun-2002/18:59 -0700, David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Calbazana, Al wrote: > >>I currently have Samba setup and things seem to be working fine. Samba >>addresses my need to move between environments, however, I want to be able >>to refer to my windows machines by hostname rather than IP. > >I presume you mean DNS hostname, rather than NetBIOS, in which case >/etc/hosts or a content DNS server are the options that come to mind ... >absent a way to make nsswitch.conf aware of WINS, which would be ideal >for you, but I don't know any way to do that. > >On the other hand, it wouldn't be too much trouble to write a script >that uses WINS queries (man nmblookup) to populate /etc/hosts for you. >Just a thought.
Samba ships with findsmb, which a perl script scans a subnet for SMB servers and outputs some basic info about each one it finds. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE9ByFjpCpg3WyUI50RArB0AJ9AGIAwJRLgB3AlGR5Gux9wL+MIqwCgr6zi YdDMgUy+mlo4IOHsWntDdf8= =q9L1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
