Re: Samba Access Question

[Simran Hansrai]

Actually I do have my search domian setup correctly, under the tcp/ip settings of my nic - Advanced - Append these DNS suffixes has my domain name in their.  This is why my web services work without me manually adding .domain.org everytime I need to access my website.  Could this be on the WINS side then maybe?  I have not setup anything on that side since I thought this was a dns lookup when I do \\hostname.  

Thanks for your response,

Ed Wilts wrote:

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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