> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 01:47:54AM +0100, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > > > But how can i make FreeBSD use NetBIOS-names, so that commans like the one > > below will work? > > > > > ping winmachine > > > > I want my FreeBSD to resolve names this way: > > > > 1.) /etc/hosts > > 2.) NetBIOS names (probably managed by Samba) > > 3.) DNS > > > > How do i achieve this? Thx. > > That's not possible in FreeBSD 4.x: there's no general support for > NetBIOS name resolution outside of the Samba code. Usually you can > get along fine without it --- a good thing to do is ensure that the > DNS and NetBIOS names of all your windows machines match up. If you > use a Windows DHCP/DNS server with dynamic DNS, you may be able to > automate that. Otherwise, you're going to have to lash something > together with scripts or just manually keep your DNS in line with > NetBIOS. > > In FreeBSD 5.x there will be support for Name Service Switch > functionality, which will make it possible for someone to write an > add-on to allow name resolution via NetBIOS. However, that doesn't > help here and now.
Please tell me more, i use FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. Has this made the way into the handbook yet? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
