[Samba] unable to ping windows hosts by hostname

2003-12-05 Thread doug
Hello, On RedHat 9 with samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0, I am connecting to a windows network through a cisco VPN connection. When the vpn is established, I can make smb calls (for example, I can browse network objects using gnome-nautilus)... and I can explicitly resolve names; for example: wbinfo -N

Re: [Samba] unable to ping windows hosts by hostname

2003-12-05 Thread David Morel
Le ven 05/12/2003 à 08:28, doug a écrit : Next, I changed /etc/nsswitch.conf like this: #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: files dns winbind I don't know about winbind but i suspect the mechanism is similar to what i have at home, where i put: hosts: files wins dns in

Re: [Samba] unable to ping windows hosts by hostname

2003-12-05 Thread doug
David, Using wins as a host resolution target instead of winbind took care of it. Thank you! --Doug On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:30, David Morel wrote: Le ven 05/12/2003 08:28, doug a crit : Next, I changed /etc/nsswitch.conf like this: #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: