IP to Name Resolution

Andrew Wallace Andrew_Wallace at phoneware.com.au
Wed Apr 19 06:49:06 GMT 2000


Thanks Tim, 

I've downloaded WINS.C from the CVS depository and am wondering how does it
fit into Samba?
The nsswitch path is not in version 2.0.6, when will it be included?

Thanks, Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Potter [mailto:tpot at linuxcare.com.au]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:33 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
Subject: Re: IP to Name Resolution


Les Kadlof writes:

> I attended the Sydney Linux Open Source Conference this year and spoke to
> Andrew Tridgell regarding our WINS Server problem we've been having and he
> suggested that I should e-mail you guys. 
> 
> We are trying to develop a driver for Linux 6.1 that can resolve IP to
> hostnames using various name resolution servers (one of them is a WINS
> Server). Andrew told me that you guys had some hacked up source code that
> could query the WINS server and return NETBIOS names.
> 
> Can someone point me into an FTP site or somewhere where I can find the
> files I need?

Check out the latest HEAD branch from the cvs repository.  The
source/nsswitch directory has a wins.c module which may do what
you want.


Tim.


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