Sunday, September 28, 2008

Fixed windows name resolution

Windows names could not be resolved out of the box. I fixed it by following these instructions:

To enable WINS resolution in Ubuntu, do the following:

Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, and change this line:

hosts: files dns

to this:

hosts: files wins dns

Then do a sudo aptitude install winbind to install winbind, and everything should work like a charm.

Note: Instructions nicely provided by Poromenos at http://www.poromenos.org/node/53

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