Hi, I've been following a similar and current thread about name resolution from LINUX side.
I have exactly the opposite problem (running ubuntu 7.10 on a network with a mixture ubuntu 6.06, WinXP and WinVista boxes) The winboxes cannot see or mount this 7.10 box I can mount WinPC shares on this 7.10 box. I was wondering about firewalls, but I can ping this 7.10 from the WinBox by IP address but _not_ by netbios name. I do not have any issues on the 8 other ubuntu 6.06 boxes on the network. The smb.conf files are "largely the same" on both the 6.06 boxes and the 7.10 box. If I ping by IP - I get a response. If I ping gm0: Ping request could not find gm0..... If I ping gm0.geograph.co.za then it works and I get the correct IP address too. The above pings are from a VISTA box. ps -ef shows nmbd is running By the way, from windows vista explorer, _all_ of these attempts return : "windows cannot find \\xxxxx. check spelling and try again." \\gm0 \\gm0.geograph.co.za \\192.168.0.1 # which is the fixed IP for gm0, yet explorer cannot see it this way Yet \\gl0 and all the other linux boxes are accessible from this Vista box. BTW: I'm not considering firewall & Squid proxy stuff on this gm0 box because ping does work with full name (gm0.geograph.co.za) Can someone please give me some ideas to work on? Thanks, Zoltan -- =========================================== Zoltan Szecsei Geograph (Pty) Ltd. P.O. Box 31255, Tokai 7966, South Africa. B3-106 Tokai Village, cnr Vans/Tokai Rds, Tokai 7945, Western Cape, South Africa. Tel: +27-21-7154329 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 Fax: +27-86-6115323 =========================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba