Re: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-18 Thread Rapazito PT
You do not mention the size of your network. Here I have 12 WinNT Workstations, 51 Win2K workstations, 3 RH Workstations and 3 RH Servers and instead of using samba to do that job I use BIND (DNS Server) and DHCP Server to do the work for me. I want to be able to resolve windows machine

Re: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-18 Thread Bert Rapp
40 workstations, 1 Win2k server, 1WinNT server, 2 Linux servers The libnss_wins is working (now that I've upgraded to Samba 2.2.5), but I'd rather be using DNS. Can we take this convesation off the samba mailing list (since it now longer relates to samaba) and can you describe your

RE: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-18 Thread darren
Terpstra Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 6:32 AM To: Bert Rapp Cc: samba Subject: Re: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Bert Rapp wrote: I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do

RE: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-18 Thread John H Terpstra
documentation tree. Cheers, John T. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba-admin;lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of John H Terpstra Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 6:32 AM To: Bert Rapp Cc: samba Subject: Re: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux On Thu, 17 Oct 2002

[Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-17 Thread Bert Rapp
I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do, from my linux box at the command line is this, ping windows_machine_name Is there any way I can do this? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and

Re: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-17 Thread Eric
On 10/17 17:07, Bert Rapp wrote: I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do, from my linux box at the command line is this, -- edit /etc/hosts: 192.168.x.x lame_windows_machine -- # ping

Re: [Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux

2002-10-17 Thread Herb Lewis
Bert Rapp wrote: I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do, from my linux box at the command line is this, ping windows_machine_name Is there any way I can do this? -- To unsubscribe from this list go