On November 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, adam morley wrote:
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> > my problem is that while nmblookup is reading smb.conf (see attached
> > strace) its not honoring the name resolve order line and checking with
> > the wins server. am i missing something obvious?
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> Correct. This is by design. To query a WINS server use
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> nmblookup -U <ip of wins server> -R <name to resolve>
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> I think this is in the nmblookup man page.
Reminds me: is it also correct that nmbd ignores which address
it's supposed to listen on, and instead binds to 'em all? I prefer to
configure my services so that they're not visible on the
Internet-facing side of things even if my firewalling is broken, just
in case my firewalling gets broken somehow.
Cheers,
Waider.
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