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I can't ping my XP box using its netbios name, neither i can nmblooup it. I'm trying to smbmount XP box share, but it only works when i use its IP address and not its nebios name. Like this: smbmount //192.168.1.34/sharename ..... and it won't work if i use "smbmount //hostname /sharename ...
Samba is working, but i did not put the ip and the hostname into the hosts file.
That's probably why it is not working. I will try this and let you know.
I've tried /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf, but that didn't seem to help.
Then, i found /etc/samba/lmhosts, added ip address and netbios name and that seems to have solved the problem.
Today I've changed all machines on my LAN to static addresses, not running DHCP server on the router any more. After this I could not mount the shared folder at the XP machine on my linux box. It said that I specified a wrong share name or something. I solved this by entering the IP address and the Host name of the XP machine that has a shared folder, into my resolv.conf. The thing is though, with DHCP i had to put IP and Hostname into the /etc/samba/lmhosts and NOT into /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf. Without the DHCP server (static addressing), it is /etc/resolv.conf and NOT /etc/samba/lmhosts or /etc/hosts.
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