On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:34:45AM -0700, Simran Hansrai wrote:
> I have a redhat 8.0 box that has samba running on it and a solaris 9 box 
> that is running dns services.  Now, when I access my samba account from 
> my windows box it works just fine when I do //192.168.0.x from 
> start->run, however when I try //hostname it does not seem to work. 

//hostname is not really a DNS name.  Windows will first try a WINS
lookup, and then try a DNS lookup after appending your default search
domain.  It's quite likely that either your host is not registered in
the DNS or that you have not set your default search domain properly.

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