[linux-cifs-client] Re: Re: Identify a host

[John G Walker]

On Thu, 17 May 2007 21:56:44 +0100 John G Walker
<johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> > As Simo suggested, Fred is not in DNS, which is why mount -t cifs
> > cannot find it.  In this case, you need to resort to the windows
> > name resolution. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and locate the line that
> > starts with hosts.  Then add wins on that line.  If you are lucky,
> > this is all you need to do.
> > 
> > This wiki page may be a good starting point for you:
> > 
> > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client
> >   
> 
> This is precisely the sort of thing I was asking for in my original
> post. Thanks. I think I'm clear now. The wiki is particularly good.
> 
> Apologies for the delay in replying, but I haven't had time until this
> evening to check out the information in the post.
> 
> However, I haven't got as far as I'd hoped, since i don't seem to be
> able to find out where to get libnss_wins.so. I've found umpteen
> references to it but nothing about how to find it,

The silence that greeted this post suggested to me that maybe the
answer should be obvious to a man of my capabilities.

After a lot of searching, I found that I had libnss_wins already
installed, so that couldn't be the reason why putting wins in
nsswitch.conf was having no effect.

After a reboot, however, it worked like a dream. I thought that
nsswitch.conf would have been read dynamically, as and when needed, but
apparently not. So I'll file that piece of information away as well.

So:
me = 1 + 'happy bunny';

Thanks very much. I'm now considerably more enlightened,

-- 
 All the best,
 John