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Originally Posted by carlitostsu  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). |
Are you sure it resolves the netbios name to the correct IP through netbios?
Or did it resolve through /etc/hosts?
As far as I know now: the lookup through netbios(smb) works with the nmbd daemon. This is part of samba.
With smblookup hostname you can then check if the ip resolves correct.
THen, your OS (mac os x in your case) should be able to resolve names through nmbd. This can be configured in /etc/host.conf
I dont know if nmbd is the correct configuration directive.
Also, it could be that Mac OS X does not support nmbd as lookup method (look in the man page of /etc/host.conf).
I hope you can fix it!