[Samba] Ubuntu client ddns failure

[Andy Durant]

netbios name is the short name

server
vs
server.domain.com

Its an older protocol, and becoming less relevant but often a necessity 
in a mixed OS environment.

in my case, I have a few *nix varieties plus some Windows machine. To 
make everything work smoothly, I include this is in my smb.conf

  wins support = Yes
  remote announce = 10.100.3.255 10.200.3.255 10.101.3.255 10.205.3.255
  remote browse sync = 10.100.3.255 10.200.3.255 10.101.3.255 10.205.3.255

and push out my samba servers IP via dhcp to my clients

Andy



On 5/20/2014 12:27 PM, steve wrote:
> On 20/05/14 17:53, Andy Durant wrote:
>> If you can resolve by fqdn but not netbios name,  you need a wins 
>> server.
>
> Hi
> What is, 'netbios name'? Is it needed only for Ubuntu?
> Steve
>