Re: Samba -- netbios

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Adam Shand, you wrote:
> 
> >The smbmount command can't locate any servers by their name (it works
> >with the IP -- also, smbclient does work w/ names).  I think this has
> >something to do w/ netbios.  Anyone know how to get this to work?
> 
> This does work, however the catch is that the netbios name must match the
> DNS hostname.  So if it's DNS name is 'pinky.domain.net' then the windows
> name for the same computer must be 'pinky'.

Not really. This is what the lmhosts file is for.

Tim


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