What had stopped working was ping <any local machine name>. ping yahoo.com worked fine.
What I have as of now is: 1) DNS redirection is turned off 2) smb.conf set to: (name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast host) 3) nsswitch.conf set to: (hosts: files dns wins) It took a restart to get everything to settle down, but this now seems to have the Nautilus browse gui happy and I can enter ping <any local machine> or ping <anything.com> and they all seem to work. All other internet functions, eg. email, web browsing, etc. seem to work fine. I am not part of a domain either here or at work, so trying to ping server.mydomain.local is not an option. Removing mdns from nsswitch.conf and substituting wins seems to do the trick as long as the order in smb.conf is set to my original changed setup. mdns refers to the avahi daemon, I believe. I don't think I use that for anything do I? My DHCP server is my router (Linksys at home and dlink gigabit at work) I'm not sure how to tell it to update my local DNS server, in fact, I don't think I'm running one. My main Ubuntu machine at home is static IP, as it functions as my house file server. But other machines on the network, both Ubuntu and WindowsXP are all DHCP. At my office, the main file server is WinXP pro SP2 all but 1 of the work stations are Ubuntu 8.04.2 and everyone has a static IP. I will try the changes at my office tomorrow and see if they work there as well as they do at my home now. I must reiterate my thought from a few posts ago. Why do I have to go through this when Windows XP "just works". As someone who has been using Linux for about 9 years, I don't mind the tinkering too much, but I am actively promoting Ubuntu to friends and professional associates and I want them, as noobies, to have as good an experience as possible. Simple local networking should not create problems like this. DNS redirection does not affect local network browsing in Windows XP. It should not affect it in Ubuntu either. -- cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
