Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:32:46 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
[...]
> This is the way it is supposed to be:
>
> The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast and without any entry in
> the smb.conf file the name resolution methods will be attempted in this
> order.
>
> Did you double check that the IP address is correct? I don't remember if
> you could "ping abcd10". I guess it is possible that abcd30 is in
> lmhosts, and abcd10 is not, and it is only checking lmhosts. Just a shot
> in the dark - then again, I have made typos more then once when doing
> this.
>
[...]
ping abcd10 works correctly. Following your comments I also tried
lmhosts -- it didn't work. I checked spellings; I did remove some
extra tabs from /etc/hosts . It looks like the order you indicate
isn't happening for the XP box. Very peculiar. BTW you are saying
"host"; I have "hosts". A typo?
Mike.
I should have copied the definition from the man page.
host: Do a standard host name to IP address resolution, using the
system /etc/hosts , NIS, or DNS lookups.
Also, lmhosts is /etc/samba/lmhosts, and not /etc/lmhosts. The
format is almost the same as /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.30 toshiba
192.168.1.31 thinkpad
192.168.1.34 mary
192.168.1.101 brother
But it is strange that it works for one host, and not the other.
Mikkel
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