SAMBA resolv configuration

[Paulo Lopes <pmml@netvita.pt>]

Hi,

I've a woody laptop system and i change alot from network to network at 
my job. Usually all the networks i join are windows machines networks 
using smb protocol to communicate. I wanted to know if there's any way 
to resolv the windows domain names under linux?

example:
on the current network there's a machine called shadow, under windows i 
can do ping shadow and it will anwser back. On linux i've to make 
something like: smbclient -L shadow, look for the ip in the anwser then 
ping <IP>, because ping shadow returns :unknown host shadow.

probably that's a smb configuration that i've missed, but i'm new to 
linux :-)

Thanks,
Paulo Lopes.