[Samba] smbtree Error NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM, John Frankish
<frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running samba on a linux machine (dslkayak) to share a folder and
> a printer with several windows machines on a home network for a couple of
> years without problems.
>
> I've recently added a second linux machine (ps3ydl) to the network, but I
> cannot access it from any other machines on the network even though it can
> access the other network shares.
>
> There error I get is:
>
> cli_start_connection: failed to connect to PS3YDL<20> (0.0.0.0). Error
> NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE
>
> even though I can ping to ps3ydl.
>
Not at 0.0.0.0 this indicates a name resolution problem.

John