[COLUG] Re: Lan hostname to IP resolution: does winbind require (Windows NT) servers?

[Duane]

Rob Funk wrote:

> Remember that Win2K and WinXP (and presumably Vista) are all NT machines 
> underneath, and if they have file/printer sharing turned on then they're 
> a server.  (Also any samba servers count.)
> 
> As far as I can tell the user/group information is only available from a 
> server configured for it (though I don't use Windows network user 
> authentication and therefore don't pay attention to that aspect), but the 
> machine name information is provided by any machine with file/printer 
> sharing turned on, to anyone broadcasting the question.

If one wishes to go to such lengths then one should just use bind9 +
dhcp setup to publish hosts names to dns and what not.

Although it really depends on how many systems we are talking about, 5
or less and editting host files is still the best.

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