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I can't resolve local windows network hostnames on slackware-current
I dont know what to do, it always worked for me by editing the /etc/nsswitch.conf , the line that contains 'hosts' adding 'wins' between 'files' and 'dns', looks like everything that is needed to resolve windows hostnames is there because I plan to share files and vnc to windows computers on my local network, the machine I am right now the network was configured with netconfig and its adding the .net suffix to hostnames, also tried in a different computer were I installed slackware-current64 and the network is configured with networkmanager and it still doesn't work, as I stopped using slackware since some time I dont know I forgot or I am missing something maybe
[EDIT] Well I think I figured the problem searching many times on the internet I found references to 'winbindd', I tested running it as root and now I can resolve windows hostnames on my local network, though the last time I used slackware everything I had to do to resolve windows hostnames was to edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file the way the thread describes but It didn't required any additional steps or anything else that maybe just running samba, and searching on /etc/rc.d/* for references to 'winbindd' as a service shows nothing, I think that the samba project may have moved wins name resolution from nmbd to winbindd, I almost feel like I was the one that fell on this problem because I asked a lot on the irc channel but seem like nobody had a clue[/EDIT]
Last edited by dissociative; 03-29-2018 at 08:55 AM.
Reason: fixed
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