[Samba] Accessed denied to shares unless IP address is used

[Eero Volotinen]

Quoting Jarom Jackson <argentum2f at gmail.com>:

> I just upgraded from Ubuntu feisty server edition to Ubuntu hardy server.
> Samba updated to version 3.0.28a.The smb.conf is the same I had before
> (checked that).
>
> From a windows machine if I enter
> \\servername\
> the shares all come up. I can see them but if I try to access them (ex.
> \\servername\data) it prompts for a username/password, and it doesn't work
> no matter what I enter
> If, on the other hand, I try the server ip
> (ex. \\192.168.0.5\)
> it works just find. I can see and browse all the shares.
> I can also ping using just the servername, and it works just fine.
> Where do I need to look to solve this?

Your dns/netbios name resolution is not working. Usually this issue  
resolves if you enable wins server on samba and add samba server ip as  
wins server on windows client.

see the: http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch07_03.html  
section 7.3.3

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Eero