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Samba on notebook with 2 NICs

I currently have Samba working properly using the eth0 interface on my notebook computer. More importantly, I can browse the network and see the shares set up in Samba. If I disconnect and go wireless using the wlan0 interface I can no longer browse the shares on Samba via name. I can however browse via IP address of the wlan0 interface. How can I make it so that Samba is accessible by name when I switch between interfaces?

Code:

[global]

  workgroup = startrek

  server string = NCC-1701 Enterprise

  bind interfaces only = yes

  interfaces = lo 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0

  hosts allow = 192.168.4.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1

  printcap name = /etc/printcap

  load printers = yes

  printing = lprng

  log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log

  max log size = 50

  security = user

  encrypt passwords = yes

  smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

  username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

  map to guest = Bad User

  socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

  dns proxy = no 

#  netbios name = enterprise-e

  local master = no

  domain master = no

  preferred master = no

  wins proxy = yes

  name resolve order = lmhosts, host, wins, bcast



# Samba now defaults to denying symlinks found in exported shares per

# http://www.samba.org/samba/news/symlink_attack.html

# To allow symlinks to be followed in Windows clients, the below three are needed

  follow symlinks = yes

  wide links = yes

  unix extensions = no



#============================ Share Definitions ==============================

[homes]

  comment = Home Directories

  browseable = no

  writable = yes

  valid users = %S

  create mode = 0600

  directory mode = 0700

Do your eth0 and wlan0 have different IP-addresses?
Try to ping your Samba-server from another PC by hostname. What IP do you see?

The hostname is associated with that IP. If you use a DNS server in your LAN, you have to edit the config file and add the second IP address to the Samba server hostname.

Yes, my eth0 has 192.168.4.10 while my wlan0 gets 192.168.4.11. When I ping this Samba-server from another machine, the resulting IP address is 192.168.4.10. Say I don't have a DNS server on my network, which means I would have to accomplish this using the hosts file on each Windows machine that I would like to connect to this Samba-server. Would the correct hosts file be as follows:

192.168.4.10 enterprise-e
192.168.4.11 enterprise-e

To put aside any worries, are there ANY issues to assigning 2 IP addresses to one hostname?

I even do not know if it's possible in MS Windows to assign the same hostname to two different IP addresses.
But I'm also interested in.

Try to edit your hosts file and then write here if everything is OK. :)

Whoa, that worked! Well browsing the Samba-server worked using the name, but if I were to ping enterprise-e I see that's it reaching 192.168.4.10 and times out. I wonder if there are anything drawbacks to assigning 2 IP addresses to one hostname...