samba - Dec 2011 - samba-server, windows7-clients, server-hostname

Greetings,

I have setup a computer to act as a  'samba-server'.  The machine has
these:-
--cpu: amd64
--OS: cblfs linux
--samba-3.6.0  compiled from sources in /usr/local/samba

The clients are windows 7 clients.  They can  only see the server as its IP-
address not a name/hostname.  


QUESTION:
--------
Are there entries to be made in smb.conf to enable the smbserver to be seen as 
its hostname/or-any-other-name rather than by its IPaddress?

suggestions welcomed

suincerely
lux-Integ 
30-12-2011

Am 30.12.2011 17:15, schrieb luxInteg:
> Greetings,
>
> I have setup a computer to act as a  'samba-server'.  The machine
has these:-
> --cpu: amd64
> --OS: cblfs linux
> --samba-3.6.0  compiled from sources in /usr/local/samba
>
> The clients are windows 7 clients.  They can  only see the server as its
IP-
> address not a name/hostname.
>
>
> QUESTION:
> --------
> Are there entries to be made in smb.conf to enable the smbserver to be seen
as
> its hostname/or-any-other-name rather than by its IPaddress?
>
> suggestions welcomed
>
> suincerely
> lux-Integ
> 30-12-2011
Hi,

for example

server string = Samba %v on %L

greets

Juergen

Hallo, luxInteg,

Du meintest am 30.12.11:
> I have setup a computer to act as a  'samba-server'.  The machine
has
> these:- --cpu: amd64
> --OS: cblfs linux
> --samba-3.6.0  compiled from sources in /usr/local/samba
> The clients are windows 7 clients.  They can  only see the server as
> its IP- address not a name/hostname.
> QUESTION:
> --------
> Are there entries to be made in smb.conf to enable the smbserver to
> be seen as its hostname/or-any-other-name rather than by its
> IPaddress?

On the clients:
What tells

        ping <IP-address>
        ping <Server-name>

        net view \\<IP-address>
        net view \\<Server-name>

If "net view \\<Server-name>" fails with "system error
53" then the
problem is/may be related to the server's name server.

If even "ping <Server-name" fails then it's no samba problem
but looks
like a name server problem.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut