[Samba] Windows 2008 Standard SP2 cannot access samba share by hostname but ok with IP

[Rowland Penny]

On 09/10/13 18:04, Jerome Yanga wrote:
> Has anyone seen this situation?
>
> My Windows 2008 Standard SP2 x86_64 cannot access my samba share using
> \\<hostname> but connects properly when connecting to it by
> \\<host_ip_address>.
>
> regards,
> j
This sounds like a DNS problem, can you ping <hostname> from the windows 
2008 server ?

rowland