Hi all,
I'm having this problem
that I'm unable to using wins for netbios name resolution with
/etc/nsswitch.conf. Whenever I try to ping a hosts using its netbios name it
almost instantly returns unknown host, putting wins in front of file and dns or
just have wins by itself does not seem to help either, firewalls are disabled
on all hosts. Nmbd and smbd is running, though probably not neccesary.
smb.conf is setup correctly, workgroup
is correct, tried either using Samba itself as the wins server or the actual
Win2003 wins server. Name resolve order in smb.conf is "wins lmhosts
bcast dns", if its relevant.
Strange thing is this works fine on my
other 2 boxes on the LAN, one running Slackware and one running FC2, all I had
to do was add "wins" to the hosts resolution order in
/etc/nsswitch.conf.
/lib/libnss_wins.so does exists, also
tried recompiling Samba and glibc, strace ping shows /lib/libnss_wins.so.2 does
get loaded.
Currently running Gentoo (~x86) on this
box with Samba-3.0.6-r4 and Glibc-2.3.4.20040808, 2.6.8.1-ck6 kernel, glibc
compiled with linux26-headers-2.6.8.1.
I'm out of ideas, can anyone please
advise (besides using /etc/hosts, which is the last resort)? I appreciate any
help.
Ryan
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