Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations SkipVought on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

\\IP can access win shares but \\hostname cannot

Status
Not open for further replies.
parazhang

parazhang

MIS
May 13, 2003
42
0
0
US
Hi,guys:

I can access win shared folder by \\IP but not by \\hostname.
Ping the hostname replied OK.
Any ideas on it?Thanks in advance



 
Sort by date Sort by votes
Your client is probably not setup to use DNS for netbios name resolution or is misconfigured.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

dpellegrini
  • Locked
  • Question
Website will load using hostname but not IP address
Replies
3
Views
188
mangentle
mangentle
DTGMI
  • Locked
  • Question
WIN 10 Pro PC & Adding back to our Network
Replies
0
Views
90
DTGMI
DTGMI
microsGuy16
  • Locked
  • Question
Can not copy files to Mapped drive
Replies
0
Views
109
microsGuy16
microsGuy16
StevenFromSouth
  • Locked
  • Question
VPN Connects but cannot access remote network computers or folders
Replies
1
Views
75
StevenFromSouth
StevenFromSouth
tscstl
  • Locked
  • Question
access to local folder
Replies
1
Views
75
hairlessupportmonkey
hairlessupportmonkey

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top