On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:32:46 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] > 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. > [...] 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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
