Sounds like netbios is not resolving names by broadcast, or the SUSE firewall is getting in the way
Have you tried it with the firewall disabled? On my system (SUSE 10) the YAST, Firewall Configuration: Broadcast, the settings are: Internal zone = <blank> De-mil.. zone = <blank> External zone = netbios-ns netbios-dgm I can browse my local windows network with no problems, using netbios names and IP addresses in Konqueror, but for some reason, ping is very pedantic, and will not work with netbios names (or maybe it is because I do not have a WINS server) Yours Andrew At 18:50 02/10/06 +0100, you wrote: >Andrew - and others, > >Thanks for this. > >The problem is that all Internet connections are fine, so no DNS problem >there. > >It is entirely my internal network, and this one SuSE VM. All the other >VM's work fine! > >If I ping internal machines from SuSE on my internal network, on each >occasion I get, "Unknown host hostname" > >I can ping the machine from Windows, but only using IP address > >It would seem that SuSE has no way of sorting out name / I address! > >Any further ideas please? > >Thanks for the tips about repositories. > > > > >Ed > > >Andrew Wafaa wrote: >>> I am having difficulty with SUSE 10 accessing the network. I can quite >>> happily browse my network if I use IP addresses. If, however, I use >>> machine names as I would in Windows, it gives an error message saying, >>> "Could not connect to host for smb://machine_name" >> >>> What am I missing here? >> >> Have there been any network changes, maybe wioth DNS or something? Can you do a dig or nslookup for your target machine? >> >>> Secondly, I am having difficulty sorting out SUSE repositories. Many of >>> the ones I have report that they are unavailable. This also means that >>> I am unable to add to my software as YAST cannot find them! >> >> There seems to be a bit of a name resolution issue in general. When you go to online update in YaST (YOU), take a note of the repository highlighted and try and ping/resolve it. If you can't then you definately have a DNS issue. >> >>> I noticed that there is the possibility of using apt-get, but I am not >>> sure how to get that started or indeed if it is a good idea! >> >>> Is there a list of up to date repositories that I can use, or does >>> anyone have a better idea?! >> >> I used to use apt-get and synaptic, but I now use SMART for 10/10.1/SLED10/SLES10. have a look at http://www.forcev.net/?page/SMART_Repositories It's a bit of a simple guide to getting it working, but it works :P >> >> Hope this helps a bit, >> >> Andy >> > >-- >----------------------------------- >Edward Kerr >http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ekerr/ > >_______________________________________________ >Peterboro mailing list >[email protected] >https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
