On Friday 16 May 2008 09:09:53 am Zoltan Szecsei wrote: > Hi, > I've been following a similar and current thread about name resolution > from LINUX side. > > I have exactly the opposite problem (running ubuntu 7.10 on a network > with a mixture ubuntu 6.06, WinXP and WinVista boxes) > > The winboxes cannot see or mount this 7.10 box > > I can mount WinPC shares on this 7.10 box. > I was wondering about firewalls, but I can ping this 7.10 from the > WinBox by IP address but _not_ by netbios name. > > I do not have any issues on the 8 other ubuntu 6.06 boxes on the network. > > The smb.conf files are "largely the same" on both the 6.06 boxes and the > 7.10 box. > If I ping by IP - I get a response. > If I ping gm0: Ping request could not find gm0..... > If I ping gm0.geograph.co.za then it works and I get the correct IP > address too. > The above pings are from a VISTA box. > > ps -ef shows nmbd is running > > By the way, from windows vista explorer, _all_ of these attempts return > > : "windows cannot find \\xxxxx. check spelling and try again." > > \\gm0 > \\gm0.geograph.co.za > \\192.168.0.1 # which is the fixed IP for gm0, yet > explorer cannot see it this way > > Yet \\gl0 and all the other linux boxes are accessible from this Vista box. > > > BTW: I'm not considering firewall & Squid proxy stuff on this gm0 box > because ping does work with full name (gm0.geograph.co.za) > > Can someone please give me some ideas to work on? > > Thanks, > Zoltan
Zoltan, Check on your Windows client, in the TCP/IP Advanced settings that you have enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP. - John T. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
