From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@NTS.Umn.EDU> Message-Id: <199803162125.PAA17743@unet.unet.umn.edu> Subject: Re: name resolve order To: jallison@whistle.com Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:25:46 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <350D9174.2C67412E@whistle.com> from "Jeremy Allison" at Mar 17, 98 08:03:06 am
Groan.
Um... I do think that I've mentioned this sort of thing a few times. I
wanted to go a bit further, though, and add in alternate means for
resolving names. I've done a bit of work on the idea. I'll take a look
at what you've done and see how I can adapt.
Chris -)-----
>
> Hi guys,
>
> John (T) finally bugged me enough to add a feature
> he's wanted for a long time (I foolishly told him it
> would take an hour to add..... ha ! :-).
>
> We now have the capability to dynamically change
> how names are resolved in smbclient, smbd and nmbd
> (not that it's really used in nmbd).
>
> The new parameter "name resolve order" acts like
> a nsswitch.conf file and will take the following
> keys :
>
> lmhosts, host, wins, bcast in any order and will
> then use the specified naming services to lookup
> host names (this is most useful in smbclient).
>
> Please look over the new stuff (it's documented
> also) - I put it in 1.9.18 and the head branches
> and try and break it :-).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy.
>
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-- Christopher R. Hertel -)----- University of Minnesota crh@nts.umn.edu Networking and Telecommunications Services