Hi Keith, Thanks for the reply, yes I only have one wins server on my LAN, it is the 192.168.0.9 hosts specified in my config file, hence I put "wins support = no". I don't have a Windows domain environment and each Samba server is standalone with its own user/password database, so I'm not running winbind. These working boxes aren't running winbind either. Just in case its because of some kind of daemon didnt restart in order for the configuration to take effect I did everything the stupid Windows way(ie reboot after every configuration change) I tried monitoring my interface in case its a network problem but I don't see any wins packets flowing out of my box at all. Right now I'm just using /etc/hosts, at least it works and its fast.. I'll recompile some Samba related packages tomorrow and see how it goes, though I still think its my glibc. I'd hate to classify this one as yet another unsolved tech mystery :-(
Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ryan Tsai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Wins netbios name resolution in /etc/nsswitch.conf > Hi Ryan, > > A couple of quick things to remember. Wins should be enabled on one and only one server (samba or windows) at a time. If you turn on "wins support" for this host, it has to be able to resolve the names. I think this means you have to have "winbindd" running to handle the wins resolution. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
