How to access a Raspberry Pi on windows network by hostname

28/7/2016

To get our Raspberry Pi to show it's hostname on a windows network, we need to install samba and winbind on the Raspberry Pi. In order to do that, we ran the following commands:

sudo apt-get install samba
sudo apt-get install winbind

Then we edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to enable wins:

Change the line "hosts: files dns" to "hosts: files wins dns"

Finally we change the hostname and reboot:

edit /etc/hostname
sudo reboot

That's all!

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