Greetings, I have an interesting situation where SAMBA servers that are across various routers are requiring the fully qualified domain name. Example: \\xyx.nrl.navy.mil. If our SAMBA server is local (behind the same router as our client), then the \\xyx name will work fine.... This allows you to connect, but if you are browsing the network neighborhood, and you double click on the \\xyx when the server is not local, you get a error back netname could not be found; where as the \\xyx.nrl.navy.mil works fine. Any ideas how to standardize this to allow connections with only the names? I can get it to work when I point my NT client to a local WINS server (where the \\xyx is also located) however, we have mulitple DOMAINs and we can keep chaging the primary and secondary WINS servers on the client. Michael -- Michael Will | Voice: (202) 767-9196 Ext. 226 Naval Research Lab Code 8140 | Fax: (202) 404-8918 4555 Overlook Ave. SW | E-mail: will@kingcrab.nrl.navy.mil Washington, DC 20375 | Skypage: 1-800-SKY-PAGE #1528803 Key fingerprint = B5BC B3BB 8995 D642 309F 9A12 9C4F D4A2 9774 DD13
Michael Will wrote:> > This allows you to connect, but if you are browsing the network > neighborhood, and you double click on the \\xyx when the server is not > local, you get a error back netname could not be found; where as the > \\xyx.nrl.navy.mil works fine. > > Any ideas how to standardize this to allow connections with only the names? > I can get it to work when I point my NT client to a local WINS server > (where the \\xyx is also located) however, we have mulitple DOMAINs and we > can keep chaging the primary and secondary WINS servers on the client. >Well, in order to do NetBIOS name resolution across routed networks you have to have the clients pointing at a WINS server. The names that appear in the 'network neighborhood' are always the short NetBIOS names so you need a known WINS server to be able to resolve them if they're not in your broadcast area.> we can keep chaging the primary and secondary WINS servers on the client.This looks like the real problem to me :-). Hope this helps, Jeremy Allison, Samba Team. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. --------------------------------------------------------