It works on Windows because Windows name resolution also does SMB broadcast resolution (also called noisy resolution) on local names so it "avoids" the DNS redirection issue.
Optimum Online apparently does DNS redirection: http://text.broadbandreports.com/shownews/Optimum-Online-Now-Using-DNS-Redirection-97985 Switching to OpenDNS just gets you another spam IP. -- cannot browse samba shares without editing smb.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
