Samba not resolving WINS

[JasonN]

I have a Mandrake 8.2 server running Samba. I am pointing to our WINS server and linux does see it but it's not resolving any names to ip's.

I have edited /etc/samba/samba.conf through Swat but I have not been successful in getting it to run.

 

[urgl]

How did you test the resolving? Did you try to use smbclient?

Hans

 

[JasonN]

I was told that with Samba running you could ping a Windows server/client at the console level and samba would resolve the ip to the name.

I need to print to DHCP'D printers and want to make sure it works before implementing.

 

[urgl]

AFAIK ping uses DNS name resolution and not nmb so a simple ping will not work. You could try to use smbclient -L to check if a service is running and if samba resolves the name to the correct IP.

Hans

 

[sixtoedsloth]

it should be obvious if its resolving via wins or bcast
bcast is like wading thru treacle.
when wins is working its VERY quick