On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:04, tcg wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2004 11:46, John Russell wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I can convince > > machine 2 that machine 1's address is the one from eth0? > > Why would "ping" resolve an address through WINS? It seems that DNS or hosts > is a more likely prospect.
DNS and hosts file are not capable of resolving dynamic address assigned by DHCP. When these machines come on line they register with the local WINS server so that their hostname can be resolved to their new dynamic address. I have an entry in nsswitch.conf to add wins to the list of places to resolve hostnames. e.g. from /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns wins without that last entry, I can't resolve any DHCP windows hosts. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba