[Samba] Resolving NetBIOS names within linux
Herb Lewis
herb at sgi.com
Thu Oct 17 21:34:02 GMT 2002
Bert Rapp wrote:
>
> I want to be able to resolve windows machine names to their IP addresses
> while using Linux. What I'd like to be able to do, from my linux box at
> the command line is this,
>
> ping windows_machine_name
>
> Is there any way I can do this?
>
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look at the libnss_wins.so file and add to your nsswitch.conf
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