On 10/14/21 18:06, Tom Horsley wrote: I got a customer who named one of the Windows devises the same name as the Wine server To find the IP in W10+ How to get the IP address from the CIFS NETBIOS name: --> <win><E> or click on Windows explorer --> click on Network (bottom, left column) --> right column Right Click --> view --> Details --> view (top pull down) --> "add columns", check IP Address I just wanted to find a way to do it from my wine server as well

On 10/15/21 02:03, Petr Menšík wrote: The server is Wine Can't find anything Dang! How do I use "dig"?

Petr Menšík: ToddAndMargo: If *it* can't, then I wouldn't expect SMB/Samba to work, either. SMB needed something to provide answers. I've avoided it for years for that kind of problem. If you didn't try and force a particular PC to be the master browser, they'd have a bunfight between themselves to see who was top dog. The bunfight could take quarter of an hour, during which time networking went haywire. If a PC joined or left the network, they'd have another bunfight. If IPs changed due to some badly implemented DHCP server that didn't always give each PC the same IP each time, that threw another spanner in the works. Samba could be configured to use DNS, Windows ought to be (but is always a nightmare to customise). WINS is a Windows name service that is used just by SMB (i.e. independent from a real DNS server). You can configure one of your PCs to be the WINS server, also configure it to be the SMB master browser in absolute preference to anything else, and ensure that PC was always running. You can "google smb.conf nameserver", for a starting point. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.42.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 7 14:49:57 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.