[Samba] Win98 not doing name resolution.

[Joel Hammer]

Would just putting your server into lmhosts on the client fix this?

Have you gone through the DIAGNOSIS.txt guide in docs/textdocs section of
your source files?
Joel

> I recently reinstalled Linux on my fileserver (RedHat 7.2), which was 
> running Samba (v 2.2.1a). Now, trying to reconfigure Samba back to its 
> original state (silly me didn't keep a copy of the conf file) I've run into 
> a problem. My win98 machines can't find the Samba server by name, but they 
> can by number. By this I mean:
> 
> On a Linux desktop,
> 
> smbclient -L //marvin/
> 
> works as expected. No problems there. However on a win98 desktop,
> 
> ping marvin
> nbtstat -A 10.0.0.1
> net view \\10.0.0.1
> 
> all work as expected, but
> 
> nbtstat -a marvin
> net view
> Network Neighborhood
> 
> fail or don't display the server, and
> 
> net view \\marvin
> 
> and typing \\marvin into Explorer don't work at first, but once I do a
> 
> net view \\10.0.0.1
> 
> they do. This all seems very odd to me, my guess is that it has something 
> to do with NetBIOS name resolution, but I'm not sure and I wouldn't know 
> how to correct it anyway. Can someone give me a pointer as to what might be 
> the problem?
> 
>                          Thanks,
>                                  Tim Bates
> 
> 
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