A dot in hostname is not RFC compliant, so change the servers hostname. Louis
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] Namens tubocurarine >Verzonden: 2011-04-27 12:03 >Aan: [email protected] >Onderwerp: [Samba] Help: issues about hostname & nameserver > >Dear developers: > >I'm using Samba-3.5.8 on Linux (Gentoo, amd64) as a file >server, and using some Windows based OSes as clinet. And >something strange happened to me. > >Things went as follows: > >1. If there was no dot (".") in the hostname of server, then >no matter whether the DNS server (in /etc/resolv.conf) was set >correctly or not, everything went fine. Client can access >shares (provided server) normally. > >2. If there was dot in hostname of server, and if the DNS >Server was set correctly (or just left as blank), server >worked normally. > >3. If there was dot in hostname of server, and the DNS Server >was set incorrectly, all client could not connect to the >server, with a message indicated that the address of server >could not be accessed. > >My friend and I payed some time on it. We found that in the >last situation, the Samba server may spend a long time to look >up the computer name (name of server or client). But before >the look up ends, the client would treat this as a timeout. > >I don't know whether we are right about this. And if we were, >why everything goes fine in the 2nd case? > >Any information will be appreciated. > >Best regards. > >Tubo > >2011-04-27 > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
