API call needed for WINS queries

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Maier, Thomas wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I search for a way to do WINS queries like
| DNS queries (with gethostbyname()).
|
| libsmbclient seems not to support such things.
|
| Is there a WINS API available?

If you install libnss_wins.so, then gethostbyname()
will support the WINS queries.  Internally, we use a
function called resolve_name().  I don't know if that
is exported to libsmbclient consumers though.




cheers, jerry
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