[SOLVED] Access samba share by hostname from win7

[Grub3r]

Hi there,

This is annoying!

running samba-3.5.6-71.fc14.x86_64

why cant I access samba share by short-hostname from win7.

when I ping short-hostname, the answer is the actual ip and short-hostname.mydomain.com

så pinging short-hostname does work, but accessing it from start-run does not! accessing by ip or short-hostname.mydomain.com works fine.

ssh by short-hostname from win7 works fine too.


what is the problem?

any help would be really appreciated.

[rcgreen]

In your smb.conf file, make sure the netbios name
is the same as the host name. This will make troubleshooting
a lot easier. Ping, ssh and most other protocols use the tcp/ip
host name. Samba, and Windows shares are accessed by the
netbios name. Name resolution for netbios names is different
from name resolution for host names

[Chapter 7] 7.3 Name Resolution with Samba

[Grub3r]

Configuring netbios through firewall solved the problem.