[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problems with Samba shares and XP clients

B. Cook bcook at poughkeepsieschools.org
Sun Aug 3 13:06:44 BST 2008


On Aug 2, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Cristiano Paris wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, richardvoigt at gmail.com
> <richardvoigt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't remember for sure, but I don't think you need netbios for  
>> cifs to
>> work.
>>
>> Try "\\ip.address\share" ?
>>
>> If that doesn't work then I don't think the problem is with dnsmasq.
>
> It doesn't work, niether.
>
>> If
>> that does work, you may have to mess with dns settings on both  
>> client and
>> server until "ping servername" works, then "\\servername\share"  
>> should also
>> work.
>
> Of course, ping works. Thank you.
>
> Cristiano
>
You wouldn't want to share you config would you?

dnsmasq and/or samba.. 



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