[Samba] smbtree Error NT_STATUS_HOST_UNREACHABLE

[John Frankish]

At 20:57 06-02-09, you wrote:
>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.
>----------------
OK, but "ping ps3ydl" works - could you give me some pointers on 
where to look if samba cannot resolve the name?

Thanks - John