I believe what you are looking for it "netbios", which is a service that
broadcasts a box's name on the network, so that the other local systems can
find it. To make the solaris box look up names through netbios, you would
have to make changes to the hosts line in the /etc/nsswitch.conf . I don't
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From: Ron Halstead
To: sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:33:55 PM
Subject: Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Resolving Solaris Hostname From Windows
C:\wi
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Isn't UNIX so much easier?
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if you don't have DNS managent, I would suggest adding it to your
window's hosts file. This way you can use hostnames from your windows
box only.
On Jul 16, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Tristram Bethea wrote:
Hi guys, I am looking to SSH into my opensolaris box from a windows
machine. However, I a
Hi guys, I am looking to SSH into my opensolaris box from a windows machine.
However, I am having a bit of a problem resolving the host name on the
opensolaris box from windows. I can connect to the opensolaris machine via IP
but I would much prefer to use the host name instead. What would be
