Unable to connect to samba server using hostname

Allen, Michael B (RSCH) Michael_B_Allen at ml.com
Tue Nov 20 02:52:58 GMT 2001


So do you have the ip address of the WINS server in your smb.conf file?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chan Jesse-CMC082 [SMTP:meiyamchan at motorola.com]
> Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 9:48 PM
> To:	'Allen, Michael B (RSCH)'
> Subject:	RE: Unable to connect to samba server using hostname
> 
> Yes, we use WINS and also DNS over here. The NT/Win2K clients have no
> problems pinging the UNIX Samba server. But when it comes to mapping to the
> shared dirs of the samba server using the servername, it gives the error "
> The network path cannot be found"
> 
> thanks & rgds, 
> Jesse Chan 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen, Michael B (RSCH) [mailto:Michael_B_Allen at ml.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:43 AM
> To: Chan Jesse-CMC082; Allen, Michael B (RSCH)
> Subject: RE: Unable to connect to samba server using hostname
> 
> 
> Ahh. Well ironically my answer is largely the same. This is a simple name
> resolution problem. Do your clients use WINS? Are they on the same subnet as
> the Samba server? Does the UNIX machine have a
> fully qualified hostname? Can you:
> 
> ping <servername>
> 
> ?
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Chan Jesse-CMC082 [SMTP:meiyamchan at motorola.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 9:29 PM
> > To:	'Allen, Michael B (RSCH)'; Chan Jesse-CMC082
> > Subject:	RE: Unable to connect to samba server using hostname
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 	I'm trying to connect to the samba server from an NT/win2K client.
> > Whenever the user tried to map to the exported folders/directories on the
> > samba server, they are not able to map to the
> > \\<servername>\<shared_folder_name>.... instead, they have to use
> > \\<IP_Address>\<shared_folder_name>
> > 	The servername is the hostname of the UNIX server that is running
> > samba....
> > 
> > thanks & rgds, 
> > Jesse Chan 
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> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Allen, Michael B (RSCH) [mailto:Michael_B_Allen at ml.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:15 AM
> > To: 'Chan Jesse-CMC082'; smb-clients at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: Unable to connect to samba server using hostname
> > 
> > 
> > You mean the NetBIOS name? The fully qualified DNS name should work. If
> not
> > do you have 'wins server = <ip address>' in the global section of
> smb.conf?
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Chan Jesse-CMC082 [SMTP:meiyamchan at motorola.com]
> > > Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 9:09 PM
> > > To:	'smb-clients at lists.samba.org.'
> > > Cc:	Chan Jesse-CMC082
> > > Subject:	Unable to connect to samba server using hostname
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 	I'm currently using samba 2.0.7 & are experiencing problem whereby
> > > the users cannot connect to the samba server using the hostname.
> Instead,
> > > they have to use the servers IP Address instead..... Any idea what kind
> of
> > > configuration needs to be done.... It's used on HPUX 10.20 OS
> > > 
> > > thanks & rgds, 
> > > Jesse Chan 
> > > 
> > > 





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