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I have a wired network using the workgroup of PAPERTECH
with the following machines:
- Windows XP (hostname:
WinXP
) - Ubuntu 12.10 (hostname:
WebServer
) - via Samba - Mac OS X 10.9 (hostname:
MacMini
)
The problem is that the Mac cannot resolve the hostname for the Ubuntu web server as it cannot ping it.
Ping Summary:
From the Windows machine I can ping
MacMini
andWebServer
.From the Ubuntu machine I can ping
WinXP.PAPERTECH.local
but cannot pingMacMini.PAPERTECH.local
.From the Mac machine I can ping
WinXP.PAPERTECH.local
but cannot pingWebServer.PAPERTECH.local
.
Mac Setup
I've set the workgroup using the Network settings under: System Preferences > Network > Ethernet (Advanced ...) > WINS. I've also enabled 'Share files and folders using SMB' under: System Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing.
Despite the above settings the Mac is still unable to ping or connect to the server using the hostname: WebServer
(NOTE: it is able to ping the IP address it resolves to).
Any other ideas?
1I tried adding this below
[global]
settings and restarted both nmbd and smbd but it didn't seem to make a difference.I then also tried a reboot after making the changes but it didn't seem to make a difference either. – paperclip – 2014-01-28T15:27:30.647