On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:39:36PM -0000, clovepower wrote: > Are you suggesting that to have my Ubuntu laptop to connect to my > Windows desktop on my 3 PC LAN, I've to setup an internal DNS server?
If you need to access your Windows PCs across the network for services other than Windows filesharing, there are a number of options available. - configure your Windows machines to use zeroconf, which is supported by default in both MacOS X and Ubuntu, and access your Windows machines using the convention <name>.local. - configure a DNS server on your local network - configure nss_wins on your Ubuntu system. The first of these is the only one I can really recommend; the second option is obviously a lot of work to maintain relative to the benefit and doesn't help you for mobile systems on foreign networks that don't run this kind of DNS, and the third one depends on software that has various problems as noted. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- cannot resolve windows host name https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270395 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
