Re: smb question

From: Allan Bruce (allanmb_at_TAKEAWAYf2s.com)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:05:07 +0100

"John Thomas Langton" <psye@brandeis.edu> wrote in message
news:86466881.0310161144.33299764@posting.google.com...
> So, I've got samba and debian and everything is working fine, but the
> linux machine doesn't resolve windows names. I can use the smbclient
> to access windows shares, but I just want to make sure I understand
> this.
>
> When I'm at my linux machine and to >ping "machinename" it says server
> not found (although it can find the IP address). So, is there a way
> to remedy this or is it that Windows uses their own name resolution
> stuff and I just always have to use smbclient if I want to access a
> windows machine from linux?
>
> please respond to my email address: psye@brandeis.edu
>
> thanks,
> John

post to the group, reply to the group.

You need to add your windows machine(s) to the /etc/hosts file

HTH
Allan

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