[Samba] Share working with IP not with hostname

[Carlos R. Pena Evertsz]

This is the trick for successfully access the share with the hostname..

Be sure you have the following lines in the smb.conf:

netbios name = yourhostname
wins support = yes

The following line in this order.

name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast


Add the following line:

hosts allow = the host ip / mask

Where the host ip is your server ip.
              the mask is the mask you are using in all your windows 
clients.

This is the most important thing. For example If you have in your server 
the mask 255.255.0.0 then all your clients must have the same network 
mask. Windows clients with the same mask of the server will see the 
server on the network with it hostname otherwise you need to access the 
server by its ip number.

I hope this can help you.

Carlos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic


On 9/12/2012 10:37 AM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
> On 09/10/12 13:52, Nitin Thakur wrote:
>> hi guys
>>
>> I managed to setup the share. I am able to access the share with IP 
>> address, but as soon as I try to do it via hostname, I get a user 
>> name and password pop up, which always fail to authenticate. Any 
>> setting I am missing?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> nitin
>>
>
> What version of Samba?
>
> My guess is there is some sort of name lookup mismatch.    Are you 
> using a domain or workgroup?  Are you using WINS?  Are you using 
> DNS?    If the samba server is the WINS server you should be able to 
> "cat wins.dat" and "tdbdump wins.tbd" to verify that the names are the 
> same.   In smb.conf, does the samba server netbios name match the DNS 
> name?
>
>
> What is the client OS?
>
> The only other thing that might be happening is that the client and 
> server are mismatching on using NTLM vs NTLM v2.  The samba logs 
> should show that.   I could NOT get NTLMv2 to work on my samba servers 
> I had to explicitly disable it in smb.conf.