This is the trick for successfully access the share with the hostname..
Be sure you have the following lines in the smb.conf:
netbios name = yourhostname
wins support = yes
The following line in this order.
name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
Add the following line:
hosts allow = the host ip / mask
Where the host ip is your server ip.
the mask is the mask you are using in all your windows
clients.
This is the most important thing. For example If you have in your server
the mask 255.255.0.0 then all your clients must have the same network
mask. Windows clients with the same mask of the server will see the
server on the network with it hostname otherwise you need to access the
server by its ip number.
I hope this can help you.
Carlos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
On 9/12/2012 10:37 AM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
On 09/10/12 13:52, Nitin Thakur wrote:
hi guys
I managed to setup the share. I am able to access the share with IP
address, but as soon as I try to do it via hostname, I get a user
name and password pop up, which always fail to authenticate. Any
setting I am missing?
Thanks
nitin
What version of Samba?
My guess is there is some sort of name lookup mismatch. Are you
using a domain or workgroup? Are you using WINS? Are you using
DNS? If the samba server is the WINS server you should be able to
"cat wins.dat" and "tdbdump wins.tbd" to verify that the names are the
same. In smb.conf, does the samba server netbios name match the DNS
name?
What is the client OS?
The only other thing that might be happening is that the client and
server are mismatching on using NTLM vs NTLM v2. The samba logs
should show that. I could NOT get NTLMv2 to work on my samba servers
I had to explicitly disable it in smb.conf.
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