Hi Ed Agoff! On 2015.01.28 at 12:54:49 -0800, Ed Agoff wrote next:
> In SL 7.0, adding "wins" to end of hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf no > longer gives me the WINS name resolution I had in earlier versions, i.e. I > could ping NetBIOS names from SL 6.x command line. I've added and enabled > various other services in a blind effort to get it working, to no effect: > nscd, samba, and samba-winbind > > What's missing in SL 7.0 that was present and allowed this in SL 6.x? You are likely missing nss libraries /usr/lib64/libnss_winbind.so and /usr/lib64/libnss_wins.so. They are provided by samba-winbind-modules package. Samba was split into more subpackages in EL7, I guess. -- Vladimir