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

[Rowland Penny]

On 10/10/13 15:02, Jerome Yanga wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>
>
OK, what version of samba are you using on your RHEL machine ? and could 
you please post your smb.conf.

Rowland