Configuring NETBIOS/Samba

[Jason Dixon]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> > I'm trying to get Fedora to share folders with the Windows machines, as 
> > well as just interact via hostnames. If I type 'ping windowsbox', it 
> > cannot find the IP in Fedora, whereas it will find it easily in XP. 
> > Presumably this is due to some sort of NETBIOS DNS lookup.
> 
> No, 'ping windowsbox' will only work if the Linux PC can resolve the
> Windows PC over /etc/hosts or querying a DNS server. Obviously you do
> not have either, no DNS server running in local net nor a valid entry
> for you local PCs in the /etc/hosts file. You can ping the Windows box
> itself as it knows his own name.

I think you're wrong here, but I can't test it currently.  The
Samba-3.0.0 manpage for winbindd suggests this can be done through
configuration of your smb.conf and nsswitch.conf, using the winbind
options.


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