The problem is that I have a pure P2P network and don't want to rely on having any of the computers left on all the time. My NAT router (which obviously is on all the time) acts as a DHCP server but does not do WINS or DNS for the LAN.
I have now configured libnss_wins for hosts lookup in my nsswitch.conf and everything works fine (it does a broadcast if there is no wins server). Aplogogies if this is considered a bodge ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradley W. Langhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andy Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:47 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] using winbind without a PDC > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:50, Andy Fish wrote: > > Hello > > > > Can someone tell me whether it is possible to use winbind on a simple windows workgroup (i.e. with no NT domain and hence no PDC). I *thought* I saw it work in samba 2.2.3 but now I am on 2.2.6 and the winbindd daemon won't start up - it loops forever in the initialization trying to contact the PDC. > > > i don't think so > > All I want to do is configure nsswitch.conf to resolve hostnames with netbios broadcast. If there is a simpler way than winbind, I'd be interested to know about it. > > i don't know any way to do this - but it just sounds like a bad idea to > me... > > use dhcp and a dynamic dns for this. > (and make samba a wins server too) > > brad > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
