Comment 46 for bug 529714

I have this problem in 10.10, i recently added "wins" to my nsswitch.conf to get name resolution to work on a windows network.

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns mdns4

This broke both aMSN and Rythmbox which now both crash when accessing the network, they will work correctly when "wins" is removed or moved behind dns or mdns4.

Unfortunately network name resolution will not work for me unless "wins" is where you see it in that line.

After a lot of googling I have found that this was fixed by Nicolas Gama in this thread https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/39990

However the .deb he made is no longer available and most likely wouldn't work on maverick anyway.

There is info here that points to a compilation mistake with the ubuntu winbind package https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/529714

So rather than being a samba bug, it is an ubuntu bug and a working version of winbind should be compiled and put in the repositories to fix this across the board.

Just a thought, can ubuntu find windows network shares out of the box? it's never worked for me and even after installing samba I still have to edit a .conf by hand, why isn't wins already there?