I believe what you are looking for it "netbios", which is a service that broadcasts a box's name on the network, so that the other local systems can find it. To make the solaris box look up names through netbios, you would have to make changes to the hosts line in the /etc/nsswitch.conf . I don't know if the nsswitch module for netbios is provided.
But, if you only care about the windows clients looking up the solaris box, you can just enable nmbd (it's part of the samba project, so you might have to install samba/nmbd). once you install that, just enable it, and make any firewall exceptions that it needs, if you have port filter rules running... (information on doing all of this should be online). Josh On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Edward Valencia <[email protected]>wrote: > if you don't have DNS managent, I would suggest adding it to your window's > hosts file. This way you can use hostnames from your windows box only. > > > On Jul 16, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Tristram Bethea <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi guys, I am looking to SSH into my opensolaris box from a windows >> machine. However, I am having a bit of a problem resolving the host name on >> the opensolaris box from windows. I can connect to the opensolaris machine >> via IP but I would much prefer to use the host name instead. What would be >> the best way to accomplish the resolution? >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> sysadmin-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss >
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