I have set up SAMBA on AIX 4.2 and can attach to NT shares and vice versa. I acquired and configured SAMBA for basically one reason, that being to gain WINS client capabilities for AIX. Right now it's not working as expected, though. I am implementing Tivoli, and Tivoli requires a bidirectional name to address resolution in order to register the managed node agent with the Framework. I can easily gain that resolution on the managed node with a hosts file that includes my Tivoli servers. From the server to the desktop is another matter. I've got 17+K desktops and the host naming convention is not supported by our DNS. Our telecomm engineer and DNS keeper said that our only hope was name to address resolution by WINS. Sounds good, but I noted in the diagnostics procedures that I had to enable the usual gethostbyname() name to address resolution before moving on to NetBIOS name resolution. I need to supplant gethostbyname() with WINS. The specifics of doing that within Tivoli are beyond the scope of this list and I'm not asking for that type of advice. What I do need though, is some technique/whatever whereby I can defeat normal name to address resolution on the Tivoli server and still derive the IP address of a workstation based on its NetBIOS host name using WINS alone. I verified that the workstation in question is contained in WINS, its address is correct, and that smb.conf is properly configured to support WINS client functionality, pointing to the right address. I can execute smbclient with the appropriate switch to reference the IP host name along with the NetBIOS name and grab the NT share from AIX. So, advice as to how WINS may function as a primary name to address resolution mechanism would be helpful. Again, I'm not asking how to integrate it with Tivoli, I'm only asking if a SAMBA WINS client can even do it. I'll worry about the rest once I get past this hurdle.
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Scott H. Baxter wrote:> I have set up SAMBA on AIX 4.2 and can attach to NT shares and vice versa. I > acquired and configured SAMBA for basically one reason, that being to gain > WINS client capabilities for AIX. Right now it's not working as expected, > though.hi scott, we use gethostbyname(), which is wrapped by "dns proxy = yes/no" in the samba WINS server code. it sounds like you want something similar, but just using a different system, if the name isn't in the WINS database. don't forget that gethostbyname() isn't just DNS: it's _whatever_ system is behind it, the configuration order of which is controlled (usually) by /etc/resolv.conf. so, behind gethostbyname() there may be NIS, NIS+, /etc/hosts, LDAP: whatever. luke