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hosts: wins
</screen>
- The next step is to make certain that Samba is running using <command>ps ax | grep mbd</command>,
- and that <command>winbindd</command> is running by executing <command>ps ax | grep winbind</command>.
- Having validated that Samba is operational, excute the following:
+ The next step is to make certain that Samba is running using <command>ps ax | grep mbd</command>.
+ The <command>nmbd</command> daemon will provide the WINS name resolution service when the
+ &smmb.conf; file <smbconfsection>[global]</smbconfsection> parameter <smbconfoption name="wins
+ support">Yes</smbconfoption> has been specified. Having validated that Samba is operational,
+ excute the following:
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&rootprompt; ping diamond
PING diamond (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.