WINS name resolv for Linux

[MikeD83]

Hello,
I'm on a Microsoft campus, everyone runs the OS and I want to use Linux. However, I can not figure how to setup linux to do a WINS lookup for DNS. I want to be able to ping a Windows machine at a command line like "ping einstein". Or use lynx or Konqueror and go to http://einstein. Has anyone had any expercience with getting this working? I'm running Red Hat 7.2.
- Mike

 

[Yomicron]

Woh, a triple post!!

EDIT: no he managed to get it in there Four times!

 

[SinNisTeR]

please say that was by accident.

 

[MikeD83]

heh... ooops.... The Java Script thing was supposed to protect from this. Sorry everyone.. (boy this will really get me some reponces especially from a moderator)

 

[Colt45]

be a little more careful with the submit button next time 😛

on topic: i have no idea, i suck with linux

 

[Nothinman]

Generally WINS is a bad thing, so much so that even MS abandoned it for DNS in Win2K. You should look into the latest and greatest Samba, I know it has a winbindd daemon so that you can use accounts from a domain instead of the local ones, but I'm not sure if it does WINS too.

 

[neuralfx]

ya samba will do all you require it to do, samba was put in place for exactly this purpose.. to talk to legacy windows (heh) machines that have to use most horrible protocol ever invented .. netbios .. just configure your samba, and ur hostname will be ur.. eck netbios name .. again its a horrible horrible protocol and any campus should be ashamed to use it=) ..
-neural

 

[manly]

WINS != DNS

Stick to TCP/IP + standard protocols/services to use the Internet.

 

[mcveigh]

Samba will do it

look here

 

[MikeD83]

WINS != DNS Stick to TCP/IP + standard protocols/services to use the Internet.

No can do, I'm a college student on a predominately Microsoft campus. The Windows servers are already in place. DNS is for the college, WINS is for their students. Plus, I don't understand how you can say that WINS and DNS are not in some way related.

Samba will do it.

Dude, Samba is a HUGE application. Which part of Samba will do this and how do you configure it? The documentation the samba group provides is hardly adequate for most people. BTW, I do have Samba configured so I can access other shares, and have registered my name with the campus WINS server.
- Mike