problem using wins client
Luca Ferrari
fluca1978 at infinito.it
Wed Jan 12 11:38:02 UTC 2011
Hi all,
I'm running ubuntu 10.04 and the computer is a network that uses the wins
server. I installed samba and cifs related stuff, changed the nsswitch.conf so
that it resolves hosts using (1) file, (2) dns, (3) wins. I edited the smb.conf
and added the wins server = 1.2.3.4 address of the wins server. However, if I
do a nmblookup I see the program doing a broadcast query. I tryed then to
change the name resolv order placing wins at the begin but still doing
nmblookup -d 5 winmachine
I can see that the program sends a broadcast. I then tried
nmblookup -d 5 -R -U 1.2.3.4 winmachine
and I got a positive correct reply.
So my problems are:
1) how to instrument nmblookup to use the wins server instead of a broadcast
2) make recursive requests against the server, since the normale request
(i.e., without -R) is not working.
I'm running samba 3.4.7.
Thanks,
Luca
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