Hostname

gdeswardt · 01-14-2005, 10:22 AM

Office setup. We are running 15+ computers with windows on a workgroup with no DNS server, but with a DHCP server. My installation is the first (of hopefullly meany) machines on the network that is running Linux the rest all Windows.

I need to access our Intranet website base on the windows hostname (example "pluto"). Although I can see the machine and in samba it shows up as the hostname, I am not able to access the website running on that machine by its hostname. I can however access the website using the IPAddress, but because it is DHCP setup the IPAddress might change.

When I try and ping the machine based on the hostname

Code:

# ping pluto

I receive the following error

Code:

ping: unknown host pluto

but if I do a nmblookup I do get the IPAddress

Code:

# nmblookup -R pluto
querying pluto on 193.168.2.255
193.168.2.229 pluto<00>

Is there a way I can setup my linux system (Suse 9.2) to resolve the hostname without me having to do a nmblookup?

Any help much appreciated.

jeickal · 01-14-2005, 04:04 PM

Yes there is. The idea is to add WINS support to your nsswitch.conf file. You're gonna need samba as well. I remember reading an HOWTO about this somewhere but I cannot find the link again. Google up "samba WINS resolution" should help.
Also this link of someone trying to do the same thing than you:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba...er/033272.html

angrybeaver · 01-15-2005, 02:23 AM

you could just add this entry to your /etc/hosts file...

193.168.2.229 pluto