[Samba] Resolving computername from ip

Beast indorama at rad.net.id
Fri Mar 26 13:50:00 GMT 2004


* Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com> menulis:

> > > Is there, on a intranet, any way to resolve the computername
> > > from its ip 
> > >   ?  I have a setup where I know which users are on which ip,
> > >   and I 
> > > wan't to notify some events to some users with a "smbclient -M".
> > > But since I don't know the computername, I don't know any way to
> > > send the popups...
> > nmblookup -A?
> 
> Setup an intranet DNS service and propogate WINS information into it
> with wins hook.  If you are using an LDAP passdb bind has a very
> good ldap-sdb module so you can keep host & zone information in the
> same Dit as well;  nice for administration.

Is this better than dynamic update DNS?, SOL.


--beast



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