hosts lists

[il moro]

Probably you do not have any Dns server
One thing is the Host name another is the Netbios name
(am i right ?)
Putting the IP    NAME in hosts file you just resolve the hostname (and
reverse)
bye

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Clark" <xwindowuser at discflo.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: hosts lists


> I am telling my samba server to use a wins server we have on our
> network. it still will not ping correctly usiing the netbios name. but
> when I add the name and IP addy to the hosts file, it works fine. why
> won't it ping without the hosts file....??? thanks.
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