[Samba] smbclient works with IP address but not hostname

Ashish Yadav gwalashish at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 00:29:32 MST 2015


Hi,

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Graeme Russ <gruss at tss-engineering.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ashish,
>
> On 09/02/15 17:50, Ashish Yadav wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Graeme Russ <gruss at tss-engineering.com
>> <mailto:gruss at tss-engineering.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi All,
>>
>>     I've configured a Fedora 20 server with samba to share a few user
>>     directories and a printer.
>>
>>      From a Windows 8 laptop, I am able to address the samba server by
>>     it's name (fs1)
>>
>>      From a Fedora 20 client (ws1), I am able to address the samba
>>     server by IP address, but not by name.
>>
>>
> [snip]
>
>
>>     Any ideas where I should start looking?
>>
>>
>> Please post your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf .
>>
>> Send the output of  "ping -c5 fs1"  command from your machine?
>>
>
> [gruss at ws1 ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Generated by NetworkManager
> domain tss-engineering.com
> search tss-engineering.com tss-engineering.com.
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> nameserver fd78:beb4:a733::1
>
> [gruss at ws1 ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>
> [gruss at ws1 ~]$ ping -c5 fs1
> PING fs1.tss-engineering.com (192.168.1.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=0.483 ms
> 64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
> time=0.435 ms
> 64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
> time=0.463 ms
> 64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64
> time=0.447 ms
> 64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64
> time=0.418 ms
>
> --- fs1.tss-engineering.com ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.418/0.449/0.483/0.026 ms
>

Have you tried with any Domain Users,

# smbclient  -L fs1 -U <Domain_User>


--Regards
Ashishkumar S. Yadav


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