Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:00:09 +0100 From: "Pascal Giannakakis" <capm@gmx.net> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to make FreeBSD like NetBIOS names? Message-ID: <003201c293c1$cde65230$0200a8c0@capm> References: <002101c29353$20495280$0200a8c0@capm> <20021124123214.GC19837@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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> 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
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