From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 6: 0:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F380637B404 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 06:00:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA58543E6E for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 06:00:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from capm@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 23772 invoked by uid 0); 24 Nov 2002 14:00:12 -0000 Received: from xdsl-195-14-220-135.netcologne.de (HELO capm) (195.14.220.135) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 24 Nov 2002 14:00:12 -0000 Message-ID: <003201c293c1$cde65230$0200a8c0@capm> From: "Pascal Giannakakis" To: "Matthew Seaman" , References: <002101c29353$20495280$0200a8c0@capm> <20021124123214.GC19837@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Subject: Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:00:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message