If you have winbind running on the client machine(s), you can have that
query the wins server before the dns by changing your /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts line to the following:
hosts: files wins dns
(will check /etc/hosts, then the wins server as configured in smb.conf,
then the dns server as configured in resolv.conf)
I'm not sure if samba acting as a wins server will do dynamic host
updates to the DNS A records (this is what Windows 200* server does when
running both WINS and DNS). This would allow you to just run a DNS
server on the same linux proxy, and not have to configure winbind on the
non-windows clients.
I don't see any way to tell winbind to use the WINS server which can be
specified as a DHCP parameter. Does anyone know a way to do this ?
-Jason
>
> Hi.
>
> Some of my friends like to drag their computers to my place
> for LAN parties
> sometimes and I've set up a DHCP server on my Linux gateway for easy
> configuration. When someone sets up a game server on their
> computer, we still
> have to resort to broadcasting via the voice-over-air
> protocol to get the IP
> to everyone. Today I set up a WINS server with Samba on my
> Linux gateway and
> all of my Windows-running computers now belong to the same
> Samba-managed
> workgroup and can resolve by name.
>
> The problem is that my non-Windows-running computers would
> also like the
> ability to resolve NetBIOS names to IPs. Is there a DNS
> server out there that
> can resolve via Samba's WINS server first and if it's not
> found, resort to
> acting as a normal caching nameserver or simply route the
> request to some
> other name servers? Basically, what I'm looking for is a
> DNS-to-WINS/DNS
> proxy. Does such a thing exist?
>
>
> Elver
>
