I'am new to Linux and networking, I have installed the Samba Server and the deamons are running as expected. But I can't see the Samba Server from the client. I can ping the Samba Server from a XP client using the servers IP address and I can ping the client from the Samba Server again using the IP address, but when I try to ping either using a host name I get a host not found error. Do I have to set up DNS if so How is this done for an internal network as all the documentation I have seen only describes DNS from the perspective of hosting domains names on our servers, when our domain is hosted by a ISP. Is thier another method Host files, WINS?
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Samba DNS
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Yes you can add an entry into /etc/hosts. See "man hosts" for details on the format.
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which is refrenced many times in this forum for troubleshooting samba - it is a good read.
See also
which is refrenced many times in this forum for troubleshooting samba - it is a good read.
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