[Samba] NBT name resolution

Phillip Susi phill at thesusis.net
Wed Apr 8 20:09:57 UTC 2020


Jonathon Reinhart via samba writes:

> Netbios has been effectively replaced by DNS for a long time now. It sounds
> like you don't have a properly functioning DNS in your environment. I would
> start there.

I had my own perfectly functioning dns server using 8.8.8.8 as the
upstream.  Aparently I now have to use the Windows DC as the DNS server
to resolve windows host names.  I guess NetBIOS made life too easy so it
had to be disabled a few months ago.



More information about the samba mailing list