ping to server pings client

[Dieter Speck]

Hi Don,

unfortunately 2.0.7 does not help because it has this problem. I even think 
that samba is not responsible because calling the web server by machine 
name (on the server) is the same crap.

And I am not using wins.

Thanks anyway,
Dieter

At 20:38 20.12.00, you wrote:
>Hello Dieter,
>Are you by any chance using wins?  There was an issue with 2.0.6 where,
>depending on how you had configured your smb.conf file with
>interfaces, and bind only interfaces, that Samba would end up registering
>the 127.0.0.1 ip address with wins instead of the ip address of the
>interface you really intended. Check your wins database and see if that is
>the case for you.  If it is, 2.0.7 seems to resolve this problem.
>Hope this helps,
>Don
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dieter Speck [mailto:d.speck at gmx.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:58 PM
>To: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: ping to server pings client
>
>
>I have a strange problem on windows 98 SE:
>
>when pinging to the sambaserver using the name, it is resolved to the local
>machine, not
>to the server, but I have both, c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts
>with correct IP adresses. They seem to be ignored for that. The same wrong
>resolution happens when calling the webserver.
>
>Does anyone know the reason?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Dieter