Re: Wine NETBIOS (CIFS) name to IP?

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Petr Menšík:
>> nmblookup $HOSTNAME

ToddAndMargo:
> Can't find anything

If *it* can't, then I wouldn't expect SMB/Samba to work, either.

SMB needed something to provide answers.  I've avoided it for years for
that kind of problem.  If you didn't try and force a particular PC to
be the master browser, they'd have a bunfight between themselves to see
who was top dog.  The bunfight could take quarter of an hour, during
which time networking went haywire.  If a PC joined or left the
network, they'd have another bunfight.  If IPs changed due to some
badly implemented DHCP server that didn't always give each PC the same
IP each time, that threw another spanner in the works.

Samba could be configured to use DNS, Windows ought to be (but is
always a nightmare to customise).  WINS is a Windows name service that
is used just by SMB (i.e. independent from a real DNS server).  You can
configure one of your PCs to be the WINS server, also configure it to
be the SMB master browser in absolute preference to anything else, and
ensure that PC was always running.

You can "google smb.conf nameserver", for a starting point.

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