Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:32:46 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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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.
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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