Mark Mitchell wrote: >The only difference is that all my >Linux servers are unable to see computers on the network unless I put >entries on the lmhosts file. I assumed they should be able to do this >through WINS or DNS. Please help with this Samba problem. > >
By default there is no netbios name lookup. Here's a quickie on how to do it when you compile samba (assuming you have samba-latest.tar.gz in /usr/local): ------------------------------------ cd /usr/local tar -zxvf samba-latest.tar.gz cd samba* cd source ./configure make nsswitch/libnss_wins.so cp nsswitch/libnss_wins.so /lib ln -s /lib/libnss_wins.so /lib/libnss_wins.so.2 ldconfig Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and add wins on your hosts line. My line looks like this: hosts: files nisplus dns wins ------------------------------------ That's a simplification, and doesn't take into account any other stuff you might be compiling into Samba, but that's the basic idea. One thing: this allows you to ping <hostname> but most applications still won't see the netbios names. Someone more hardcore than I might be able to indicate what else you have to do to make it work system-wide. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
