Re: [Samba] Share working with IP not with hostname

2012-09-12 Thread Gaiseric Vandal
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

Re: [Samba] Share working with IP not with hostname

2012-09-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/09/12 01:52 PM, 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 I'm

Re: [Samba] Share working with IP not with hostname

2012-09-12 Thread Carlos R. Pena Evertsz
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 =

[Samba] Share working with IP not with hostname

2012-09-10 Thread Nitin Thakur
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 -- To