From ef2e26c91b80556af033d3335e55f5dfa6fff31d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:53:07 +0000 Subject: first public release of samba4 code (This used to be commit b0510b5428b3461aeb9bbe3cc95f62fc73e2b97f) --- source4/nsswitch/README | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 source4/nsswitch/README (limited to 'source4/nsswitch/README') diff --git a/source4/nsswitch/README b/source4/nsswitch/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9f0c581df6 --- /dev/null +++ b/source4/nsswitch/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +This extension provides a "wins" module for NSS on glibc2/Linux. This +allows you to use a WINS entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf for hostname +resolution, allowing you to resolve netbios names via start unix +gethostbyname() calls. The end result is that you can use netbios +names as host names in unix apps. + +1) run configure +2) run "make nsswitch" +3) cp nsswitch/libnss_wins.so /lib/libnss_wins.so.2 +4) add a wins entry to the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf +5) use it + +tridge@linuxcare.com -- cgit