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insingertech

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Mar 29, 2009
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how come on my mac if i type in the name of my server
Code: 
smb://insingerzeus
it gives me an error.
but when i type in its ip adress it does not.
Code: 
smb://192.168.1.***
please help
 
IIRC, (and I may be wrong), dont you need to specific a share as well?

Code: 
smb://insingerzeus/sharename/
 
neither of these methods worked.
also when i try to add a printer from a windows computer i select the workgroup then select the server and then it gives me another error.
 
Then I'm stumped, I have a NAS drive, but I only access it through the IP address.
 
heres a test: can you go to terminal and type
Code: 
ping insingerzeus.local

does it reply or does it say "Can not resolve. Unknown Host." ?
 
ok sounds like its not translating the Hostname into an ip.

you can try editing the host file. its in

/private/etc/hosts

u need to be root tho, so use sudo.
 
Where are you typing it?

In the Connect to Server... dialog, you should be able to use the Windows computer name. If the computer shows up in the sidebar, you can bypass this step and just select the computer.

The computer name windows broadcasts is not an mDNS name like Macs use, it uses Microsoft's NetBIOS name. One person I found reported this problem after enabling File Sharing.

If you need to convert a computer name to an IP address easily, you can open the Terminal and type nmblookup computername.

I have my Router set to lock computers to the same address each time they connect, so this isn't an issue. I can connect to file servers with the name (using Connect to Server...) but use the IP for printing.
 
I found this:

Mac OS X broadcasts the first 15 characters of your hostname via NetBIOS. For instance, my hostname is "Ryan-Govostes-iMac," so to access it by SMB, I would connect to \\Ryan-Govostes-i\
Click to expand...

What kind of server is it? That might help solve this. Are you sure it is Samba, might it be a cifs: server?
 
No i am trying to acsess the windows pc. I can get to the pc when i type in
Code: 
smb://192.168.1.xxx
but not when i type in
Code: 
smb://hostname
can anyone help?
 
oculus42 said:
In the Connect to Server... dialog, you should be able to use the Windows computer name. If the computer shows up in the sidebar, you can bypass this step and just select the computer.
Click to expand...
like just
Code: 
HOSTNAME
not
Code: 
smb://hostname
 
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