Wins is now considered obsolete along with netbios even by Microsoft. In modern environments every thing should use DNS. XP was the last version of windows which shipped with netbios turned on by default and without netbios wins doesn't work either.
Thanks, Vladimir! That did the trick.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> 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 ha
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
> v
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,
