[Samba] Name Resolution, Pinging

Fri May 17 04:55:01 GMT 2002

He said he is using a M$ WINS server not the samba box.  In the smb.conf doc
it says the dns proxy setting is only used when the samba server is acting
as a WINS server.  It also says it is set to yes by default anyway.

I think the simplist solutions would be to add DNS to the existing WINS
Server and configure it to do lookups in WINS, then set the DNS Server for
the Linux box to it's IP Address.  Samba has nothing to do with it.

Josh Konkol, CNE MCSE  
Senior Network Analyst
GuideOne Insurance
Mail Stop AB-1
515-267-2427
jkonkol at guidemail.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: nj-hotmail [mailto:ntest7 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:25 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Name Resolution, Pinging

how about setting the MS DNS server as the resolver for Unix, and
using Dns Proxy = Yes in samba?
or did I miss something here?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Cormany" <acormany at yahoo.com>
To: "Konkol, Josh" <JKonkol at guidemail.com>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Samba] Name Resolution, Pinging

| Your statement is correct about the MS DNS server can
| be configured, but that really isn't my issue. I'm
| dealing with trying to get the Redhat Linux 7.3 system
| to be able to ping/resolve hostnames.
|
| It has to do with Samba for the fact that Samba can
| handle the job if set up correctly, which I'm
| attempting to do.
|
| --- "Konkol, Josh" <JKonkol at guidemail.com> wrote:
| > Do you have a DNS Server ??  A M$ DNS server can be
| > configured to look up
| > names in a WINS db if it doesn't have an entry,
| > that's probably how your
| > windows computer can ping the name.
| >
| > IMHO I don't see what Samba has to do with this?
| >
| > Josh Konkol, CNE MCSE
| > Senior Network Analyst
| > GuideOne Insurance
| > Mail Stop AB-1
| > 515-267-2427
| > jkonkol at guidemail.com
| >
| >  .~.
| >  /V\
| > /( )\
| > ^^-^^
| >
| >
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Adam Cormany [mailto:acormany at yahoo.com]
| > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:49 PM
| > To: Herb Lewis
| > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
| > Subject: Re: [Samba] Name Resolution, Pinging
| >
| >
| > Ok, I just finished compiling libnss_wins.so:
| > 1) I did a `make nsswitch/libnns_wins.so
| > 2) I found mixed documentation saying to copy
| > libnns_wins.so to /lib, some docs say with the name
| > libnns_wins.so, some with libnns_wins.so.2. I did
| > both
| > just in case:)
| > 3) I added wins to my "hosts:" field in
| > /etc/nsswitch.conf
| > 4) I restarted smbd/nmbd just in case.
| >
| > I still can not `ping acormany` though. Am I missing
| > something?
| >
| > --- Herb Lewis <herb at sgi.com> wrote:
| > > Look at the libnss_wins.so module and add wins to
| > > your
| > > /etc/nsswitch file.
| > >
| > > Adam Cormany wrote:
| > > >
| > > > I am running redhat 7.3 with Samba 2.2.4. I was
| > > > wondering if there was a way to use Samba to
| > > resolve
| > > > my IPs instead of having to add all the entries
| > to
| > > my
| > > > /etc/hosts file? For instance, I would like to
| > be
| > > able
| > > > to do `ping acormany` instead of `ping <IP
| > > Address>`.
| > > > We are currently using WINS on a Windows box to
| > > > resolve the IPs. As of right now, I can `ping
| > > > acormany` on a Windows system, but not on my
| > > Redhat
| > > > 7.3. Can this be resolved through Samba? If so,
| > > could
| > > > someone point me in the right direction?
| > > >
| > > > Thanks
| > > > Adam Cormany
| > > >
| > > >
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