I have a strange problem on windows 98 SE: when pinging to the sambaserver using the name, it is resolved to the local machine, not to the server, but I have both, c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts with correct IP adresses. They seem to be ignored for that. The same wrong resolution happens when calling the webserver. Does anyone know the reason? Best regards, Dieter
Hello Dieter, Are you by any chance using wins? There was an issue with 2.0.6 where, depending on how you had configured your smb.conf file with interfaces, and bind only interfaces, that Samba would end up registering the 127.0.0.1 ip address with wins instead of the ip address of the interface you really intended. Check your wins database and see if that is the case for you. If it is, 2.0.7 seems to resolve this problem. Hope this helps, Don -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Speck [mailto:d.speck@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:58 PM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: ping to server pings client I have a strange problem on windows 98 SE: when pinging to the sambaserver using the name, it is resolved to the local machine, not to the server, but I have both, c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts with correct IP adresses. They seem to be ignored for that. The same wrong resolution happens when calling the webserver. Does anyone know the reason? Best regards, Dieter
Is it somehow resolving from DNS first?
This could be. How can I check this and how to change it? At 23:13 20.12.00, you wrote:>Is it somehow resolving from DNS first?
Hi Don, unfortunately 2.0.7 does not help because it has this problem. I even think that samba is not responsible because calling the web server by machine name (on the server) is the same crap. And I am not using wins. Thanks anyway, Dieter At 20:38 20.12.00, you wrote:>Hello Dieter, >Are you by any chance using wins? There was an issue with 2.0.6 where, >depending on how you had configured your smb.conf file with >interfaces, and bind only interfaces, that Samba would end up registering >the 127.0.0.1 ip address with wins instead of the ip address of the >interface you really intended. Check your wins database and see if that is >the case for you. If it is, 2.0.7 seems to resolve this problem. >Hope this helps, >Don > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dieter Speck [mailto:d.speck@gmx.net] >Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:58 PM >To: samba@lists.samba.org >Subject: ping to server pings client > > >I have a strange problem on windows 98 SE: > >when pinging to the sambaserver using the name, it is resolved to the local >machine, not >to the server, but I have both, c:\windows\hosts and c:\windows\lmhosts >with correct IP adresses. They seem to be ignored for that. The same wrong >resolution happens when calling the webserver. > >Does anyone know the reason? > >Best regards, > >Dieter