Christian Perrier wrote:
tags 437534 wontfix
thanks
Quoting Lukasz Szybalski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello,
As a Programmer and IT with 60 users on the network and 6 servers, with
3 internal webistes I have to say that automatically resolving names via
WINS hostname should be enabled by default!!!
That is your opinion.
As in charge of personal computing in an organisation with 1000 users
on the network, dozens of servers and an undertermined number of
websites, this is not mine. We resolve names with the DNS.
DNS lookup is a little too much for home network and small business network.
1. Not a whole lot of people know how and which program is responsible
for hostname resolution. (It took me 3 months before I found myself on a
right track)
2. I see a lot of use for it. Internal websites, they all use hostname
instead of ip addresses. You are looking for a computer share but you
don't know which server its on? If this is enabled you can easily find
it. If its not enabled then you have to switch to windows because
windows has it as a default, and you don't have to to be searching 3
months on how to enable hostname lookup. (That is bad!)
3. Windows has this feature enabled and as soon as you need to connect
to a dynamic ip computer that changes its ip address every few days, you
will love the fact that its enabled. (Not sure how mac does it)
I don't see ANY problems with enabling it by default? People are asking
for it, therefore this bug, so what is stopping us from making it happen?
Anyway, this is the Debian policy that packages do *not* modify
configuration files owned by another package.
/etc/nsswitch.conf is provided and owned by base-files. As far as I
know, no package providing Name Service Switch libraries does modify
that file and I actually don't see any reason for winbind to do
so....even by asking to users.
Except for DNS setup, is there a program that would allow hostname
resolution just like winbind does for dynamic ip computers?
Other samba package maintainers or Samba upstream developers on the
list, please feel free to object but my understanding is that this bug
report is to be tagged wontfix.
I'm sure samba is capable of looking up the computers by hostname, but
is it part of samba if I do something like this:
ping myservername
I don't know if this is related to samba? Where would I go to get more
clarification on status of debian hostname resolution .
Lucas
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