Hi.

Can anyone tell me how I can ping my debian computers on their hostname?

I have installed both samba and winbind and I have also changed the line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to:

hosts: files wins dns

I have done the same thing on another linux box (ubuntu) just to see if that worked and it did - I could ping it on the hostname.

Also, I have trid to add the ip/hostname in /etc/hosts and even that didn't work.

The /etc/resolv.conf seems to be as it should.

In the /etc/hostname the hostname is updated.

I have tried to restart the samba service and the networking service and even the entire computer but none of it worked.

Can anyone please let me know what I have forgotten?

\Jan.

1: Can you browse the Linux SMB shares from Windows OK?
2: In the global section of your smb.conf file have you set your netbios name?
3: Can you 'see' the machine from windows using a dos prompt and NBTSTAT -c

It is now working.
I'm not sure what I have done different - installed winbind & samba - changed /etc/nsswitch.conf and vupti it worked.
Wired.

\Jan.