Vancouver get’s it’s 5th HD channel now. it shows up as 10.1 and according to Wikipedia, it went online earlier this month. I don’t watch this channel much but it’s still nice to finally see another channel go live. I am still waiting for NBC/FOX Vancouver affiliate stations to go online. Time to rescan your ATSC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citytv

been beating around this problem until I finally found a solution on the net that worked.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/09/27/143831.aspx

near the bottom there’s reference to setting the default provider and using the tag in the providers. that seemed to get things going for me. I am not sure why I had to depend on finding solutions on the internet for something conceivably should be offered out of the box…

hostname resolution doesn’t get offered out of the box. you’ll need to apt-get install winbind and update /etc/nsswitch.conf to include “wins” in the “hosts” declaration.

hosts: files dns wins

after that you’re good to go. ping and use windows computernames freely and scoff at any linux users who insist running netbios/wins/lmhosts is a dead way of communicating between computers. I will happily function effectively within companies that still use it.