[Bug 270395] Re: cannot resolve windows host name

[Tor Sjowall]

This problem is still unsolved.

The host names of windows PCs are not visible to Linux programs with a regular installation of Samba,
i.e. from Linux 'ping win_pc' does not work, but from windows 'ping linux_pc' does work.

Also, 'nmblookup win_pc' works, while 'nslookup win_pc' does not work.

Installing winbind and changing the nsswitch.conf's host: definition to 'host: files dns wins' fix the problem. 
This is not obvious to a naive user.

I suggest changing the host definition in nsswitch.conf on installation of winbind
I also suggest installing winbind together with Samba

This would improve the user experience when working in a mixed Ubuntu/Windows network environment.
The whole point of the Samba package is to make it possible to work in such a mixed environment.

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