Tomek, So you know the netbios name of the machine you want to access, but not it's IP address. My suggestion would be to modify the /etc/nsswitch.conf file on whichever machine you need to VNC from.
Find the line containing "hosts: files,dns" (or something to that effect) and appends "wins" to that list, eg: "hosts: files,dns,wins" Now your machine should resolve netbios names as well as IP addresses, so you could type: 'vncviewer SERWER:0' and be on your way. There's also the nmblookup tool, which might be easier to use if you don't have root access to modify nsswitch.conf. HTH, -- Nick p.s.: first post to this list, hope I followed the correct etiquette. p.p.s: the above suggestion works with Samba 3, I'm not sure about samba 2.2 or older. Tomasz Chmielewski Wrote: > So, if there is no better way, I think I would have to check wins.dat > file on a PDC machine (it's also w WINS server), it seems to have a > copy > of all netbios names with corresponding IPs. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
