[Samba] Netbios name resolution on Suse Linux 7.1 with Samba

[Brian Whitehead]

Did you add it to /etc/host.conf ?

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Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oyegbemi Akintan" <Oyegbemi.Akintan at oracle.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: [Samba] Netbios name resolution on Suse Linux 7.1 with Samba


> I've been trying to figure out what I need to do to enable Netbios name
> resolution using samba but all my effort has been to no avail. I
> installed samba on Suse 7.1. This is how I configure and built it
> 1. configure
> 2. make nsswitch/libnss_wins.so
> 3. make install
> 4. cp /samba/samba2.2.3a/source/nsswitch/libnss_wins.so /lib
> 5. mkdir /usr/local/samba/var/locks
> 6. add wins to hosts: line entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf
> 7. ran /etc/startsmb :
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
> /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -D
> 
> When I run /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbdlookup client name, it resolves to
> IP but when I ping client, it returns an error: Unknown host
> 
> 
> Can someone help me please, what am I doing wrong, I need to get this
> working ASAP, I will really appreciate any help I can get.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Oye
> 
>