If you have winbind running on the client machine(s), you can have that query the wins server before the dns by changing your /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts line to the following:
hosts: files wins dns (will check /etc/hosts, then the wins server as configured in smb.conf, then the dns server as configured in resolv.conf) I'm not sure if samba acting as a wins server will do dynamic host updates to the DNS A records (this is what Windows 200* server does when running both WINS and DNS). This would allow you to just run a DNS server on the same linux proxy, and not have to configure winbind on the non-windows clients. I don't see any way to tell winbind to use the WINS server which can be specified as a DHCP parameter. Does anyone know a way to do this ? -Jason > > Hi. > > Some of my friends like to drag their computers to my place > for LAN parties > sometimes and I've set up a DHCP server on my Linux gateway for easy > configuration. When someone sets up a game server on their > computer, we still > have to resort to broadcasting via the voice-over-air > protocol to get the IP > to everyone. Today I set up a WINS server with Samba on my > Linux gateway and > all of my Windows-running computers now belong to the same > Samba-managed > workgroup and can resolve by name. > > The problem is that my non-Windows-running computers would > also like the > ability to resolve NetBIOS names to IPs. Is there a DNS > server out there that > can resolve via Samba's WINS server first and if it's not > found, resort to > acting as a normal caching nameserver or simply route the > request to some > other name servers? Basically, what I'm looking for is a > DNS-to-WINS/DNS > proxy. Does such a thing exist? > > > Elver > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba