smbclient server name resolution

Simon Hyde shyde at poboxes.com
Mon Nov 24 08:35:45 GMT 1997


On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:56:35 +1100, you wrote:

>
>Hello.  I have been looking at smbclient source code and it seems to use
>gethostbyname first to try to resolve a server name and then tries WINS.
>
>In a dial-in-to-the-ISP situation where the ISP runs the DNS, this may be
>a "gotcha" - particularly as we want to use DHCP for PCs and want to print
>to a printer attached to one of those PCs with smbclient.
>
>Am I reading this correctly?  Has anyone made this combination work
>without dialing the ISP for every print job?
>

Try setting 'dns proxy = no' in smb.conf, this should solve your problems.
Either this or setting up your local caching DNS server.


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