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

[Jerome Yanga]

Stephane,

NetBIOS is set to Default.

Rowland,

The DNS works on the Windows 2008 server.  I can ping the hostname of my
RHEL machine from the windows server.

regards,
j


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Rowland Penny
<rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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
>