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Originally Posted by deadeyes  Hi all,
I just got my first macbook.
All seems to be working great... except:
When I try to browse to a server in my network with the IP everything works fine. When I use the hostname it cant resolve the name so it fails.
this is very annoying because a shared printer by cups uses its netbios address while this cant resolve.
There is NOTHING wrong with the other systems... they all worked fine.
Does anyone know what I need to change? Or how I can track this down? |
deadeyes,
Were you able to fix this problem? I'm having a very similar problem.
Please let me know if you were able to.
If not here's a workaround which unfortunately the user in my organization does not want to do.
A workaround is the following:
In Terminal type:
sudo open /etc/hosts
edit the hosts file by typing in the ip address and the name you want to tie it to.
I tried to get the user who is having this problem in our network to do it, but he doesn't want to do it (another user was kind enough to bring their own personal MAC to work so that I cant test this out and it resolved the IP address to the NetBIOS name).