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Sorry, just missed your post when I replied.



It will mean that the Ubuntu box can't resolve NETBIOS names, that's all. So you would not be able to connect to the XP machine by name, for...

I can see that broken WINS might cause the browsing functions to screw up, but what you're reporting suggests the reverse if anything and I'm not sure how having two machines thinking they're the LMB...

Yes, put it back then find the actual problem :D

Actually, first let's see which one breaks it - mdns or wins?

Try taking wins out completely:


hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return]...

That's why I said "just as an experiment". It will also tell you if there is something broken with mdns/wins causing one of them to return not found or similar problem.



I don't know why you...

OK, I missed that bit on first reading :D So, DNS is not the problem.

Just as an experiment, try moving dns higher up the order in nsswitch.conf:


hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal wins...

Check also this file:


cat /etc/nsswitch.conf

I'm not exactly a networking expert, but iptables seems to show packets being exchanged via udp in both directions with the OpenDNS server...