Re: [Samba] Help: issues about hostname nameserver

2011-04-28 Thread tubocurarine
think you do, and also dhcpserver on your server which i guess also. the you should setup dynamic dns. ( its not that hard to set this up.) i guess you problem is the dhcpserver/dns setup. check all of the above and report back. Best regards, Louis Van: tubocurarine [mailto:tubocurar

[Samba] Help: issues about hostname nameserver

2011-04-27 Thread tubocurarine
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

Re: [Samba] Help: issues about hostname nameserver

2011-04-27 Thread tubocurarine
in hostname is not RFC compliant, so change the servers hostname. Louis -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: tubocurar...@163.com [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] Namens tubocurarine Verzonden: 2011-04-27 12:03 Aan: samba@lists.samba.org Onderwerp: [Samba] Help: issues about hostname

Re: [Samba] Help: issues about hostname nameserver

2011-04-27 Thread tubocurarine
Another interest thing: if we use a Linux client to access the shares from server, it connects successfully in all cases. Don't know why. Thanks again. At 2011-04-28 09:06:59,tubocurarine tubocurar...@163.com wrote: Thanks for your reply. But both the wikipeida (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki