Does anyone know how to resolve netbios names in Solaris? I need to be able to ping any windows box from my Sun Solaris 8 box that appears on my network. Is that possible? Thanks, Steve -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 18:48, Steve Malkos wrote:> Does anyone know how to resolve netbios names in Solaris?Can't speak to Solaris but ping is not a netbios utility. Linux boxes with Samba that I've worked act like older Windows boxes in the sense that IP resolution and netbios resolution are pretty much separate. From my limited knowledge my guess is tha you will unlikely find it difficult to pass netbios resolution to IP utilities.> I need to be able to ping any windows box from my Sun Solaris 8 box that appears on my network. Is that possible?Use the IP address. Use a hosts file. Use DNS. Chris -- 'Nix MS - Just Say .NyET
am not sure if you already know this you can do this if samba is installed on solaris, with nmblookup utility for ex nmblookup -A "windows host name" -----Original Message----- From: Chris Smith [mailto:chris@realcomputerguy.com] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:59 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Netbios Ping in Solaris?? On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 18:48, Steve Malkos wrote:> Does anyone know how to resolve netbios names in Solaris?Can't speak to Solaris but ping is not a netbios utility. Linux boxes with Samba that I've worked act like older Windows boxes in the sense that IP resolution and netbios resolution are pretty much separate. From my limited knowledge my guess is tha you will unlikely find it difficult to pass netbios resolution to IP utilities.> I need to be able to ping any windows box from my Sun Solaris 8 box thatappears on my network. Is that possible? Use the IP address. Use a hosts file. Use DNS. Chris -- 'Nix MS - Just Say .NyET -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Steve Malkos wrote:> Does anyone know how to resolve netbios names in Solaris? > > I need to be able to ping any windows box from my Sun Solaris 8 box that > appears on my network. Is that possible?There is a wins NSS module in source/nssiwtch/. Haven't tried it on Solaris. cheers, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--