nsswitch.conf

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:02, Robert wrote:
> I recently installed Fedora core 3 and I'm having a problem with 
> nsswitch.conf, it doesn't support wins on the hosts: line.  Is there any 
> way to get it?

wins is something that is really specific to Microsoft type systems. 
For linux or unix type systems you use DNS, host files, NIS+ to do name
to IP address translations.  

While you can configure samba on linux to provide wins support for other
systems as far as I know it will not use wins to resolve gethostbyname
calls.  

What are you trying to accomplish?  Maybe there is another solution.

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