samba - Aug 2000 - Samba 2.0.7, cannot find netbios names

When I try to Ping a server using it's netbios name it reports the
following:
ping: unknown host 'Tux' (or other netbios name)
When I ping it using the IP address, it works fine. I can ping using the
netbios name on my 2.0.6 Samba server (on another system).  I can't find any
relevant messages in the log file as to why this is happening (just requests
from other systems to for name lookup). Does anyone know if this is a bug in
Samba 2.0.7? Is there a way to fix this? Everything seems to be set up the
same as with my 2.0.6 server in the smb.conf file.

Thanks,

Ben Meyer

[Ben Meyer <Ben_Meyer@pfm.org>]
> When I try to Ping a server using it's netbios name it reports the
> following:
> ping: unknown host 'Tux' (or other netbios name)
> When I ping it using the IP address, it works fine.
`ping' on Unix (is this on Unix?) uses the C library function
gethostbyname() for name resolution.  On some versions of Unix (such as
Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX) gethostbyname() goes through a switch known
as NSS; other versions have hard-coded methods.  The typical Unix setup
uses static /etc/hosts entries, the NIS map `hosts.byname', and DNS as
configured in /etc/resolv.conf.

Currently Samba has no effect on any of these things, so `ping' cannot
perform NetBIOS name lookups.  There is an effort in progress, winbind,
which will provide among other things an NSS module for NetBIOS, but
winbind is not yet distributed with Samba releases.
> I can ping using the netbios name on my 2.0.6 Samba server (on
> another system).
In that case you most likely have other differences in your two
environments.

Peter