Brad wrote: [snip] > Would anyone care to: > > a. confirm whether 'nsswitch.conf' and such work in Cygwin?
No. But /etc/resolv.conf does if you installed minires. > b. tell me how I can get Cygwin to search various domains when > trying to resolve hostnames? Haven't tried it myself but adding 'search domain.whatever' in /etc/resolv.conf might work. Sure way to do it: add the search domains in Windows' "Advanced TCP/IP Settings" for your network card, in the append... options of course. > c. tell me about any 'networking' FAQ for cygwin? No dice. > We primarily use NIS here, although DNS as well; I believe NIS isn't > available with cygwin? Don't really know the answer to that one. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
