Thanks to Ed Wilts for pointing me to the right direction. In my smb.conf for samba I turned on the option for it to act as a WINS server and added the ip for my redhat box in the tcp/ip wins section of my windows nic and it works now :) \\hostname ...
Thanks again,
-- Simran H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.chamkila.org
Simran Hansrai wrote:
Update: It does seem to work with \\hostname.domain.org but not \\hostname... however, when I try http://hostname that seems to work perfectly.. I am missing something??
Thanks
Simran Hansrai wrote:
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.-- Simran H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.chamkila.org
-- Simran H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.chamkila.org
