On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:30:22PM +0000, Paulo Lopes wrote: > David B Harris wrote: > > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:38:34 +0000 > >Paulo Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at > >>my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks > >>using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way > >>to resolv the windows domain names under linux? > >> > >>example: > >>on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i > >>can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make > >>something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then > >>ping <IP>, because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow. > >> > >>probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to > >>linux :-) > >> > >> > > > >I suspect that you're not resolving "windows domain names", but rather > >that, in the Windows installation, it's set to search a default domain. So > >"shadow" is really "shadow.foo.com", but it's set to search "foo.com", so > >you can use 'shadow' as a shorthand for 'shadow.foo.com'. > > > >Typically, DHCP does this for you. If not, you can add "search" lines to > >/etc/resolv.conf: > > > >search mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com eelf.ddts.net oftc.net > > > >So were I to 'ping shadow', it'd first try > >'shadow.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com', then 'shadow.eelf.ddts.net', then > >'shadow.oftc.net', then try the regular DNS route (which won't work, > >because there's no .shadow top-level domain). > > > > > That's not what i need... i need to resolve NetBIOS names such as other > names. > The network does not have a WINS server nor DNS server. All names on the > network are resolved from netbios... (it's a small network 20 windows > machines)
The next level back from /etc/resolve.conf is /etc/nsswitch.conf which tells the resolver which services to look for names in, but doesn't seem to include netbios, perhaps for some of the reasons stated in the article below... A quick google brought up: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-01/lw-01-thereandback-p6.html which discusses what you want to do. I haven't read far enough to see if he comes to a solution - I suspect not. nbtscan should give you a list of names and numbers though. hth nyk -- /__ \_|\/ /\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
