Help: Unable to connect to share by netbios name only by IP address

[Rob's Mail on Apollo]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rob's Mail on Apollo 
  To: Simon Allenby 
  Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:12 PM
  Subject: Re: Unable to connect to share by netbios name only by IP address


  Simon.
  The box has 2 ip nic cards and 2 different Ip addresses 
  151.109.168.180 and 151.109.168.75

  when I ping I get 151.109.168.180
  when I do a nmblookup I get 151.109.168.75

  how can I assign samba to use the 151.109.168.180 which is the one that DNS has
  registered
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Simon Allenby 
    To: Rob's Mail on Apollo 
    Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:56 AM
    Subject: Re: Unable to connect to share by netbios name only by IP address


    Sorry taking so long to reply!

    It does sound like it's a netbios name resolution problem as I said in my last message. If you do a ping, that uses DNS to resolve the name, so that's fine. A browse request however does not use DNS, but queries the master browser, or WINS server. If you don't have a WINS server, then this fails. A *nix client will probably fall back to DNS if Netbios resolution fails, but Windows clients won't.

    Simon

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