Well, I just added my problem machine to the to the DNS and it finds it. The problem machine was an XP laptop, which was on a differnet subnet. You have to add the netbios name of the problem machine to the DNS.
I am not sure which machine can't find which machine in your setup. Samba requires you to set some parameters in smb.conf to use DNS if a wins look fails. Here is part of my named.local. I had to add the last line for ahamm002 because that was the netbios name of the XP machine even though when the XP machine comes onto the network it gets assigned the name laptop by the DHCP server. jhammer.org. 86400 IN SOA hammer2 jlh.hammer2.jhammer.org ( 199802152 28800 7200 604800 86400 ) l=2 86400 IN NS hammer2 l=2 localhost 86400 IN A 127.0.0.1 l=2 jhammer6 86400 IN A 192.168.0.6 hammer7 86400 IN A 192.168.0.7 hammer 86400 IN A 192.168.0.13 subnet 86400 IN A 192.168.1.2 laptop 86400 IN A 192.168.1.3 hammer8 86400 IN A 192.168.0.8 oldelsa 86400 IN A 192.168.0.5 ellen 86400 IN CNAME hammer1 l=2 joel 86400 IN CNAME hammer2 l=2 andrew 86400 IN CNAME hammer7 l=2 helen 86400 IN CNAME hammer3 l=2 elsa 86400 IN CNAME subnet l=2 andy 86400 IN CNAME laptop l=2 ahamm002 86440 IN CNAME laptop Joel On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:02:42AM +0800, Daniel Tan wrote: > hi, i encounter the same problem on certain machines...i have DNS enabled pointing it to my DNS server in win95 version b but it doesn't seems to understand it...i need 2 manually add the hostname to bind to the ip address in lmhosts...i hate that...is there any other way to solve this issue? my DNS is serving all other workstations fine.... > the one not working is on a 10.0 network and my internet network is >192.168...routing works fine.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joel Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Desmond Quek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:41 AM > Subject: Re: [Samba] The Network path was not found - Please help > > > > Does using lmhosts solve the problem? If so, you should be able to solve the > > problem with DNS. > > > > BTW, we (I) may be confounding ourselves (myself) with terminology. > > Cross net browsing is not quite the same thing as allowing clients to > > find your server on a different subnet (I think). The clients aren't > > really browsing in that case, just being pointed to a particular machine. > > > > Joel > > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:18:36AM -0700, Desmond Quek wrote: > > > Hi Joel, > > > > > > Thanks for your tip! Unless I have to, I'd rather prefer not to use > > > lmhosts. > > > > > > I actually had "wins server" and some other global parameters > > > recommended in BROWSING.txt defined in smb.conf. But I'm still having > > > this cross subnet browsing issue. Not sure what am I missing... > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba