[COLUG] Re: Lan hostname to IP resolution

[Jeffrey Tadlock]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
>  It's possible to install a "winbind" library that can be enabled
>  in /etc/nsswitch.conf so that a hostname lookup includes the Windows
>  network in its search.

I thought winbind just allowed you to query a Windows server/domain
for users and groups for validation?  When editing nsswitch.conf to
make use of winbind it is generally for the passwd portion.

Using Netbios for name resolution is handled by Samba and the default
smb.conf setting of:

name resolve order = lmhosts hosts wins bcast

The last option being the broadcast which allows the Linux box to
broadcast in order to find the chatty Windows host by name.

~Jeffrey