[Bug 270395] Re: cannot resolve windows host name

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:39:36PM -0000, clovepower wrote:
> Are you suggesting that to have my Ubuntu laptop to connect to my
> Windows desktop on my 3 PC LAN, I've to setup an internal DNS server?

If you need to access your Windows PCs across the network for services other
than Windows filesharing, there are a number of options available.

- configure your Windows machines to use zeroconf, which is supported by
  default in both MacOS X and Ubuntu, and access your Windows machines using
  the convention <name>.local.
- configure a DNS server on your local network
- configure nss_wins on your Ubuntu system.

The first of these is the only one I can really recommend; the second option
is obviously a lot of work to maintain relative to the benefit and doesn't
help you for mobile systems on foreign networks that don't run this kind of
DNS, and the third one depends on software that has various problems as
noted.

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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org

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cannot resolve windows host name
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270395
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