I have 11.04 installed.
It is joined to a domain. I am able to ping some of my computers by their name, but some I can't.
Those I can't are our NAS machines (Readynas Netgear). I can ping them only by IP from my Ubuntu machine. But I can ping them regularly by host name, from any other windows machine.
Please advise what should I check?
Just add WINS to the hosts: line in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file:
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
passwd: compat lsass
group: compat lsass
shadow: compat
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns mdns4
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
This tells the system to use WINS in order to lookup netbios. The winbind package has to be installed for this to work.
